Some folk devote a whole volume to VM, this way you always know what you have free for it in a block. You can partition a big disk to have one volume about 1 gig or so and keep that for VM (even call it "VM"). No need to be defragging to be sure that VM works well, just be sure to toss everything off it before shutdown perhaps. All this, if indeed you need VM and it needs contiguous hard disk space ...
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:27:28 -0700 > From: David Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: No VM? > >> First thing to check is your main HD. How much free space do you >> have and how much is contiguous. Since you have 1 Gig of RAM, you >> will need 1025 MB of HD available (1 Gig + 1 MB). > > Over 5 Gig available on that drive, (about 1.3 Gig on the second OS drive) > but > contiguous? According to Norton (I don't know how accurate their visual > graphics of defragging are) The OS has lots of apps between it and the empty > space due to the Speed Disk optimizer function. I'll do a test and move all > but > the System Folder to another drive and see what happens after another > optimization with the OS only on the drive. Will post the results. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
