[X-Unix] SetFile

[Tom Shaw]

I have to ask....

Why are you partitioning at all on a laptop? 
Partitioning will actually reduce performance.

Tom

At 3:43 PM -0500 1/13/05, Rich Sweeny wrote:
>All of the machines in question are dual CPU G5's with 2GB of RAM. I read
>somewhere that creating a swap file larger than 512mb was a waste of disk
>space. I have never had any problems and all of the machines are used in a
>Prepress House where the image files can be from 10mb to 500mb.
>
>The particular machine I am having the problem with is a 15", 1.5GHz G4
>powerbook with 2GB of RAM and I have experienced no problems, so far,
>related to my swap file size. Except of course trying to hide the thing.
>
>Rich
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>Aren't you running into problems all the time or are you quitting all
>your programs constantly?
>
>I usually have a swap size of 2-3 GB, even with my 1GB RAM on my PB,
>but then again, I open about 100 web pages every morning before I leave
>home.
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>Cheers,
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>Kim
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>Den 12. jan 2005, kl. 13.43, skrev Rich Sweeny:
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>>  I moved my swap file to a 500mb disk partition and I have a 2GB scratch
>>  partition for Photoshop.
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