[X-Unix] Moving swap

Kirk McElhearn kirklists at wanadoo.fr
Wed Mar 31 22:50:22 PST 2004


On 4/1/04 12:17 AM, "Scott Haneda" <scott at newgeo.com> wrote:

> I once read a article from someone who sounded very knowledgeable on the
> reasons why you are wasting your time to move swap.  It was a few pages
> long, I have googled for this article as much as I can handle :-)  Anyone
> have a idea on this article?  Or, any article that talks in detail about
> memory management on OS X?

Moving your swap files to another partition is a waste of time if it is a
partition and not a disk. It doesn't speed anything up, since the same disk
is still hitting several places at once. It could be useful if you have a
second disk that you only use for swap files - in fact, it's a good way to
use a small HD for something.
 
 
Kirk
 
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