On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 05:01 pm, John E Guillory wrote:
> I'd like to ask this question of the list knowing that most of you are > experienced programmers (geeks : ) ). > I read several sites that suggest creating a dedicated swap file on a > sperate disk or even on the same system disk. > Others strongely advize against this trusting Apple. Are any of you > using a > seperate swap partition on a seperate/same disk? > Well it's normal *Unix* to do this - it's typically partition B. If you has a spare small SCSI disk you might get a nice increase in performance, but it doesn't seem an issue. I'd like to see someone try and report results (before/after)
