Page File guidance?

[RussA]

What are the guidelines for allocating ram space for page-swap files? My mate has a 1GB, old athlon PC and I wanted to check the setting of the paging file. What would be the recommended file size and what are the rule-of-thumbs (if any) that apply to this area?

Thanks.

 

[RussA]

Thanks guys - excellent inputs.

Thx.