And my comments... > If > you never see more than one or two swap files and if top does not show > appreciable page outs there is really no need to have a separate swap > partition.
While that's true as far as it goes, if you have your old SCSI disk sitting there doing nothing, why not? Every little helps. Most of the time it won't slow things down, and when it's needed, it may help. > I sometimes see folks installing their swap files on a > separate partition on the SAME physical drive as the OS X partition > which makes no sense at all since the spindle and heads cannot read > more than location at a time from the same physical disk. Now, there are 2 different points in there. The disk heads can't be in 2 places at once. True. BUT keeping the VM files in a separate partition WILL: - reduce fragmentation of the primary partition - save space if you're stuck with an 8GB boot partition - save the OS from searching the filesystem for the VM files It may not give much performance boost, but it will help to prevent performance /degrading/ over time. > If you are > going to use a separate swap partition it has to be on a physically > separate disk to make much sense. Modify that to "to be optimal", I'd agree. But arguably running OS X on obsolete kit doesn't make much sense, when spending a bit more money would get much faster machines. Yet that's what this list is about: getting the best you can from what you've got. -- Liam Proven � http://welcome.to/liamsweb -- 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/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
