At 3:55 AM -0400 8/7/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
i completely understand what you said. I was referring to virtual RAM. i was wondering if there is a way to completely turn off virtual memory to increase system performance on a mac. RAM on the other hand, most of my computers have it to their limits.
Yes, you can turn off virtual memory - it's Unix afterall. But if you do that then your RAM usage will bloat like crazy and performance will take a nose dive -- no more shared libraries, memory protections, etc.
VM in OS X is VERY efficient, and actually quite passive. It does not start paging to disk until you run out of memory!
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