At 12:20 AM -0500 9/8/2008, Ralph wrote: >On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 15:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think these are things to consider when > > cobbling together a solid state boot drive with X. > >You have it exactly right. If your only disk drive is a solid state >one, my first choice would be to add enough memory that you won't >need virtual memory. Then, I would disable virtual memory.
Given enough memory, OS X barely pages. Disabling VM would cripple much of the system. Better to just add RAM then if you really need, kindof bizarre but - page to a RAM disk. You can monitor this with Activity Monitor. Watch the page *out* rate in the Memory pane. If you have enough RAM available, that number won't budge much. Page *in* will fly because image activation (app launch) is done by paging in (reading). In this case, it's just *out* that counts - the writes using up cycle life of the card. >My second choice would be to use a commercial solid state drive, >not just an adapter and cf cards. yea. The static ram used in real ram drives has a much higher cycle life. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
