Scott at HobbyLink Japan / 03.10.26 / 1:00 AM wrote: >Joe Kissel, in his fine Tid-Bits "Taking Control" mini-book about >updating to Panther (available at www.tidbits.com/takecontrol for $5) >says that you should leave at least twice the size of your physical RAM >available as open hard disk space for your day-to-day operations.
Hmmm, I don't know if I can agree with this. This 'twice' practice must came from Unix/Linux swap partition often practiced around the time the average OSes were running on 16-32MB of RAM. Unlike its origin, BSD, OSX uses very different swapfile architecture. It has 80MB default no matter how much you have physical RAM, and will add 80MB chunk of swapfile when needed. On my TiBook800/1GB, just opening a Photoshop file produces 5 swapfiles. For this very reason, I recommend at least 1GB free space for healthy OSX life :-) Speaking of swap partition, OSX can take an advantage of it as all the Unix does, but only if you have one 1~2GB SCSI drive. This is an OSX limitation, unfortunately. -- - Hiro [PROTECTED] <[PROTECTED]>
