On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 03:11 PM, Jacques wrote: > It's odd all right. However Swap partitions are meant to be on separate > partitions and even a separate disk if at all possible. This is > something > most likely to do with Apple's VM management. I'll be glad when it's as > good as Linux'. For now though I'm just careful. This most likely > occurred > while I had really heavily loaded memory and got VM low warnings > directing me to close out of applications, which I did. had to reboot > to > reclaim VM but was thwared...
the only time in which placing swap on a separate partition is advantageous to having it on the main partition is when the swap partition is on another disk. The theory behind placing swap on another disk is as such: since that drive could be dedicated to swap, there would be no prolonged read/write delays while the drive is busy doing other stuff. Taking Linux as the example, the only reason you have to (in most vanilla installations) put swap on a dedicated partition is because the swap system requires this. Why does it require this? Because in high-performance setups, swap should be on it's on disk, or on a partition of an otherwise lightly-used disk. Multiple partitions on one disk actually -defeats- the original purpose of having a dedicate swap volume. Why? Because it's still having to compete with the main partition for access to the I/O heads. (and yes, I'm aware that newer versions of the Linux kernel have a kluge that allows OS X-style swap) -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
