[Ti] Ti - progressively slowing down

[David Stodolsky]

On 25 Jun 2008, at 09:43, MB wrote:

> Terence  Cozad sa såhär:
>
>> The general, but unofficial, rule is to leave at least 10% of the  
>> HD free.
>> Less than that and the system slows down.
>
> 10% helps yes, but for demanding apps that also need data swap space,
> I'd say 20% free is a more useful norm.

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.

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.



dss

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