Jeffrey Noel
Screenwriter
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I just deleted over 650 MB of mp3s off of my computer! What is going on? I checked my C: drive and it says there is 13.4 MB left. WTF?
Can you help?
Can you help?
You need to clean out at least 2-300MBHe did. He was left with 13.4MB after deleting 650MB of mp3s...
Sounds like swap file is running amuck or something...
Just don't reinstall Moron Edition.Don't worry, not going to happen!
Mark, it's my hard drive space that I have nothing of. I am going to reformat this darned thing tomorrow, but I will transfer all of my stuff over to my roommate's computer. My freakin' CD-RW drive went psycho on me about a week ago. It won't even open. Sometimes my computer doesn't even recognize that I have a CD drive. I now believe that my computer is on its last breath, but maybe the hard drive format will give it a fresh breath. I hope so, because I really don't feel like charging a new computer. Oh well, that's life.
BTW, my computer has 256MB RAM.
Set your swapfile to a constant size; 384MB.Set your swap size to double your memory if you have the space (and if you don't have the space, upgrade your hard drive), and as mentioned set it to a constant size.
A few other places to make some HD room is your internet explorer temporary files, I believe default is something like 10% of your hard disk for temp files. Just go into internet explorer and delete them (this can take awhile). Also you can delete any of the folders windows created while doing updates (typically the folder will say something like "Windows update setup files"). If you see an i386 directory, you can delete it...as it's just the setup files for the OS, so make sure you have the CD handy in case you need to install some hardware.
Andrew
I have 1GB of ram in my WinXP machine, so that means I can either let Windows manage my swap file which means it will change in size and fragment faster, or I can set it, but it will need to be 2GB . I need to run Partition Magic and steal some hard drive space from my second partition anyway.Don't let Windows manage it, as you said it will change in size at times and your drive will need to be defraged more often, there is also overhead as Windows figures out it needs to be bigger/smaller, etc. However with 1GB of memory you probably don't need to set the swap at double the memory (you can probably get away with just a 1GB swap, or maybe 1.5GB), unless you are using your machine to run a lot of applications or a few big applications. The swap file is there for Windows to put select pieces of applications and the OS into so it can free up regular memory, if you go into the task manager and take a peek at how much available physical memory you have you can kind of gauge this. But more is better if you can spare it, for instance I have a Citrix server here with 2GB of memory in it, with a 4 and change GB swap file I have almost 1GB of physical memory free with a few people on the machine.
Lastly, you can set the swap file onto a different drive if you want, and is sometimes recommended. For instance I have servers here where the primary drives (just the OS for the most part) are set in a RAID 1 (mirroring) configuration, and all the data drives are setup in a faster RAID configuration, so I moved the swap file to those drives as access and read times are much faster.
Andrew