>How did you turn virtual memory off? I have 384 meg of ram and that seems >to me to be enough to work without a swap file.
You're not supposed to do that. Unix (and OS X) use their swap file (VM) much more efficiently than Windows/MacOS. They only use it when necessary, so turning it off wouldn't provide any speed increase at all, and just limit the size of pipes and the size of files you could load in things like Photoshop. Also, if you ever get a kernel panic, you need the swap partition to debug the problem, if you're into doing that sort of thing, because the OS will copy the RAM into the swap partition before dying. Now then, if you REALLY want to turn off your swap file, you need to remove the partition from /etc/fstab from the command line. It will be labeled "swap" somewhere on the line. Just comment the line with a # at the beginning of the line. Reboot, and you're done. Hopefully OS X will boot without a swap file, I've never tried, but Linux and BSD will, so I assume OS X will too. (WARNING: This procedure is dangerous, if you do it wrong you won't be able to boot anymore!) Shawn _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
