On Feb 17, 2010, at 17:54, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Feb 17, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: >> Should I be worried that these swapfiles don't match the pattern you've >> described? > > Probably not, perhaps things are set up differently for laptops. > > The swap file generation is handled by dynamic_pager which by default makes > subsequent files larger, but can be set up to make files all of the same size.
Each major version of Mac OS X seems to have a different way of calling dynamic_pager resulting in different sizes of vm files. I doubt it varies by computer model, but it might vary based on the amount of physical memory. I wouldn't worry what size the individual files are, just what total space they occupy. For comparison, on a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and 4 GB RAM I have: -rw------T 1 root wheel 4294967296 Dec 7 12:12 sleepimage -rw------- 1 root wheel 67108864 Feb 17 19:41 swapfile0 -rw------- 1 root wheel 67108864 Feb 17 19:41 swapfile1 -rw------- 1 root wheel 134217728 Feb 17 19:41 swapfile2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 268435456 Feb 17 19:41 swapfile3 -rw------- 1 root wheel 536870912 Feb 17 19:41 swapfile4 -rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 Feb 17 19:41 swapfile5 -rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 Feb 17 19:41 swapfile6 -rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 Feb 17 19:41 swapfile7 -rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 Feb 17 19:41 swapfile8 On a MacBook Pro with Leopard and 2 GB RAM I have: -rw------T 1 root wheel 2147483648 May 10 2008 sleepimage -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 Feb 11 00:51 swapfile0 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 Feb 14 05:28 swapfile1 -rw------T 1 root wheel 134217728 Feb 14 06:03 swapfile2 -rw------T 1 root wheel 134217728 Feb 14 06:06 swapfile3 -rw------T 1 root wheel 134217728 Feb 14 06:07 swapfile4 -rw------T 1 root wheel 134217728 Feb 15 15:43 swapfile5 -rw------T 1 root wheel 134217728 Feb 17 06:51 swapfile6 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
