No, you missed my point. This has nothing to do with any sort of erasure.
My point is that OS X *does not out-page much under normal circumstances*. IF your system is out-paging excessively then moving it to a different HD on the same bus certainly isn't going to buy you anything. Your $ is better spent buying RAM. - Dan. At 9:17 AM -0700 1/7/2009, Kyle Parish wrote: >Thank you. I can see your point on designating VM to another external >HD or disk drive where it may get erased. However, the one I am >talking about would be installed in the computer, and both HDs' would >run in parallel. If I designated the same amount of V.M. to that >drive that the current HD has designated, than I do'nt see a problem, >but there always is that chance. As my stuff is backed up and not >much of a problem to fix, and I do'nt have a lot of real important >stuff that can't be restored easily than I will try it. Also, it's >not an expensive computer so I will try and experiment and see if it >makes a difference. I'll let everyone know how it works. Thanks for >the link. > >On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> At 11:16 AM -0800 1/6/2009, KP wrote: >>>Does OSX use Virtual Memory? I want to do what I have done on >>>previous PCs' and put another HD in my Mac to designate it >>>completely to VM. >> >> As I just posted in the other thread: >> >> Yes, OS X does use VM - it's Unix, afterall. >> >> Unlike Windoze, the memory management system in Unix is quite >> efficient... So moving the swap files to a different hard drive will >> improve overall system performance *ONLY* if your system is horribly >> memory poor in the first place. This is not the case for most users, >> so we rarely recommend it. >> >> If your system's page out rate is that high, all the time, buying >> more RAM would be a better investment... >> >>>Also, will OSX allow me to designate VM to a specific drive? >> >> Yes. I think there are instructions for doing so on macosxhints. I >> strongly DO NOT recommend it unless you have a bad paging problem >> (memory poor). >> >> >> OS X is NOT Windows. THINK DIFFERENT. >> 99% of the time trying to wedge a Windoze fix into OS X is a Bad Idea. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
