Estimates of disk space requirements are provided during the analysis input file processor stage of an Abaqus analysis. Swap space should typically be set to approximately three times the amount of physical memory installed on the computer.

Abaqus analyses can create large scratch files that are written to the directories specified by environment file parameters. These parameters can be changed from their defaults to point to file systems that are large enough to contain the scratch files. These variables are described in “Memory and disk management parameters,” Section 4.1.1.