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Originally Posted by 052569
Now, on to swap files. Disabling swap files is a bad idea. Placing the swap file in a RAM disk is a worse idea. You are always better off having the OS manage memory for you: it's got more information to infer where the memory's needed than you do. Unless somehow you're force to use 32-bit XP--which has an effectively 3 GB memory limit--and want to utilize more RAM, leave the swap file alone.
I'm not quite convinced that running Photoshop without swap leads to better performance. While PS effectively manage its own memory, without swap the OS can't page out unused background services to disk, thus less memory is available for PS.
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You still didn't tell us why is bad.
If you never go over the total RAM you have why do you need the swap file?
For example. You a few things opened. Now you go play a game a uses a considerable mem. Still in the overall it won't go over the total RAM you have. When you quit the game the system will be soooo slow coz it will be transferring from the swap the data of the other programs since the game ended so there is more free mem. This is 1 of the examples of what I hate the most. If you didn't have swap file there wouldn't be this unnecessary transfer.