I'd like some help figuring this out. My machine cannot use compressed swap in 10.9.5.
This is not an "always" issue. Originally it did use compressed swap with no problem. I switched to non-compressed swap because, under heavy load, the system would only have 6 GB for normal use, and 10 GB was used for the compressed data. And at the time, my normal heavy load was a minecraft server, a minecraft client, a teamspeak/skype call, and a video recorder -- which did not fit into 6 GB. If I boot up a 10.12.6 image, I get compressed swap working just fine. But it takes too long to boot off my USB stick, and (bleep bleep apple) I don't have the room on my spare OS partition for the ever increasing OS size. (Bleep, why Apple, why do you force every important folder to be on the root partition? I've got tons of space on a giant partition on the internal drive, and I was brought up with a Multi-boot/Linux-based philosophy of the root partition is the stable system code, not /tmp, not swap, not users, not caches, etc.) Symptoms: As soon as the swap data tries to go to disk, I see this in the console log: Jul 16 22:55:30 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: low swap: suspending pid 11512 (Dragon Dictate) Jul 16 22:55:30 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: low swap: suspending pid 2415 (firefox) Jul 16 22:55:30 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 90 [wdhelper] Jul 16 22:55:30 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: Swap File Error. Dynamic Pager is being run with the default args: 118 ?? Ss 0:00.14 /sbin/dynamic_pager -F /private/var/vm/swapfile And there are standby files there: keybounceMBP:~ michael$ ls /private/var/vm/ total 1114112 65536 swapfile0 1048576 swapfile1 keybounceMBP:~ michael$ And, just in case: keybounceMBP:~ michael$ openssl sha1 /sbin/dynamic_pager SHA1(/sbin/dynamic_pager)= f6b342d0023745ad8088650a502cb7a4e87b12c0 keybounceMBP:~ michael$ Did perhaps the pager get disk corruption? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
