Very weird happenings.. - an explanation?

[Poox]

I was playing DAoC and i go LD and it says windows virtual memory is too low.. so then i check my C drive space and it says 1GB, then i waited and it came up with 500mb, i waited some more and then it says 0 space on C drive, i reset my PC and now I have 600mb free.. what is happening?

 

[VampiiricMist]

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

 

[Honza]

Hmm, nice page, just few bullshits there...
Keeping size of your virtual memory dynamic leads to spreading parts of virtual memory file all over the disc which incredibly slows down whole machine when it's accessed.
How to avoid this? You can simulate work of linux swap drive...
Make new volume on your harddisc - the size of volume+ size of your ram should not be lesser than 2GB (make the volume about 20MB larger). Move this volume to 'Z:' drive or something so it doesn't mess among other drives you have. Then set Windows to make virtual drive there - now it doesn't matter at all if it is fixed size virtual drive (ie you fill the whole disc) or dynamically allocated one - file will always be in one piece.

three things:
-> never use the swap file volume for anything else. NEVER
-> in case you set fixed size of virtual drive, set it to fill whole capacity of new volume and then to get rid of Windows free space bothering set quota on that volume as low as possible.
-> your volume with virtual drive should be NTFS one