> Have you tried just letting OS X manage the swap files but forcing a fixed
> size?
Yes. It starts putting memory up onto disk much earlier.
It will put a lot of memory up, running up at least half a gig of swap
file space, in the same usage pattern that currently occupies no
swapfile space.
> And is dynamic_pager-wrapper something you modified from the normal
> /sbin/dynamic_pager, or did the file get renamed in 10.6?
Heh, looks like I missed a file then.
Kleiman-ibook:~ michael$ less /sbin/dynamic_pager-wrapper
#!/bin/sh
echo Dynamic pager called with args -E "$@"
exec /sbin/dynamic_pager -E "$@"
Kleiman-ibook:~ michael$
So it's just a debugging wrapper.
>> 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?
Hmm... quick response is to use a loop. Ugly, but I can't think of a
better way offhand.
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