[Ti] Ti - progressively slowing down

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David Stodolsky said:

>Swap space is normally only a Gig, you can see it under System Memory  
>in Activity Monitor in 10.5.3. This is an absolute value that is  
>unrelated to drive size, so giving it as a percent doesn't make sense.  
>However, on some Unix systems 20% is the recommended free space.
It does make sense, in practice. Which was my point. Theory is fine, but
practical usage is where it counts, no?
 Also what one want for speed is more or less contiguous drive space. It
will work with less, but it will be slower, as have already been said.
Also, I addressed swap needs of apps, like Photoshop or other memory
intensive apps. These apps ALSO need to use the drive for temp files. 

>Once I get past 5 swap files, my system becomes more or less unusable.  
>I try to run with a single swap file (the min.), because the system  
>starts to slow down with multiple swap files and also can start make  
>errors. Unfortunately, OS X isn't that good at reducing swap files  
>when memory is freed up. So, I restart to clear the system out.
Are you on 10.3? I have not had ANY problems with swapfiles since 10.4.
But then I have at least 20% free space on my HD.