On 10-Aug-2010, at 12:58, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
>
> 3. I'm using fixed size, collapsible swapfiles. I found that
> adjustable sized swapfiles pretty much never clean up (seems to only
> clean down to the high-water mark, and never collapse down to reuse
> discarded pages.) This works better for small memory machines that use
> a lot of swap.
Have you tried just letting OS X manage the swap files but forcing a fixed size?
And is dynamic_pager-wrapper something you modified from the normal
/sbin/dynamic_pager, or did the file get renamed in 10.6?
> free=`vm_stat | egrep ' free' | awk '{print $NF}' | sed s,\\\\.,,`
This brings up an unrelated awk question which you might know the answer to.
Let's say I want to awk print $5 to $NF, how do I do that?
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