on 7/4/03 12:48 AM, Kirk McElhearn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The one area in which I am not sure I agree with the article's conclusions >> is in regard to system swap files. OS X depends on some rather large swap >> files. It can easily create a gigabyte of swap files (in chunks of about 800 >> MB, I believe) during a long period of uptime, running many different >> applications. If you don't have about a gig's worth of 800 MB chunks lying >> around, you will probably end up with some fragmented swap files. For a >> time, I operated OS X from a 1.5 GB partition (something I learned is not a >> good idea). I had about 700 MB of total free space on that partition; my >> swap files got really badly fragmented. When that happened, my system slowed >> to a crawl. Just restarting was like being reborn. Defragging the disk >> frequently helped delay the inevitable slowdown and give me a much longer >> workable uptime, although it did not prevent the eventual degradation.
I am pretty sure that 800MB is actually 80 -rw------T 1 root wheel 80000000 Jul 4 13:48 swapfile0 80000000 = 80MB's (roughly) -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novato, CA U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
