[P1] To Partition or...! Virtual Memory

[Jack Rodgers]

On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 03:52  AM, Charles Martin wrote:

>
> Note how much better that is than the way OS 9 handles "RAM full" or 
> "disk full" situations. :)
>

I've mentioned before about how Word 4, many many years ago (think of 
scrolling text on your screen shrinking to a point at the top to give 
the allusion of distance) turned into the slowness champion and 
required minutes to perform what used to be instantaneous, well kind 
of, actions. Turns out I had like 12K free disk space and word was 
paging in and out of that 12K as scratch space. I deleted a lot of 
unneeded files and freed up considerable drive space and word ceased 
acting funky after I reopened it.

I can imagine the excitement of opening a 350 Meg photoshop file with 
12K free disk space.

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