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Yanto - 19 Feb 2004 22:58 GMT

Recently I lost few ten megabytes of my harddisk space because of bigger
swap file, I was shock because of no new software installation, no
background running software.
My question is: What makes the swap file grows up?
TIA

Yanto

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Jeff Richards - 20 Feb 2004 02:11 GMT

Running more applications simultaneously, or using more data with your
current applications, such as a large document or embedding graphics in a
document or accessing a large spreadsheet.

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> Recently I lost few ten megabytes of my harddisk space because of bigger
> swap file, I was shock because of no new software installation, no
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> Yanto

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Yanto - 20 Feb 2004 23:13 GMT

Dear Jeff,

It is happend when the first time the computer is on, so there is no running
program at that time, no background running program.
On the screen, after all the icon appear and the status is idle, I find that
the harddisk (lamp indicator) still running for a while, after stopped, I
check the size of swap file is around 70MB, few days ago only 36MB.
I like to reduce this because it takes quite lot of space.
Rgds,

Yanto

> Running more applications simultaneously, or using more data with your
> current applications, such as a large document or embedding graphics in a
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Jeff Richards - 21 Feb 2004 00:43 GMT

You can boot to DOS and delete the file, as Windows will re-create it next
time you start. You can only reduce the size of the swapfile by reducing the
applications you are running or by reducing the memory requirements of those
applications. If your swap file has recently grown, then perhaps you are
now running more applications automatically at startup than previously.

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> Dear Jeff,
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> check the size of swap file is around 70MB, few days ago only 36MB.
> I like to reduce this because it takes quite lot of space.

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