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RE: [Digital BW] Setting up the Swap drive for PS in Windows

2004-11-23 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: bobphoto [mailto:bobphoto@...]
>
> How do you use the third gig of RAM since PS will only use two?
> Does PS get the whole two gigs and system and other applications
> go to the third or do you have it configured as the first swap drive?

The remaining gig gets used by the OS, probably mostly for a huge disk
cache, as well as for any other apps that may be open. It means that PS
really really has a full two gigs to run in.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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