On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 02:20 PM, joeballo wrote: > You will always have swapfile(0) 'cause that is the default swap file > that is created at boot time and it will always be 80 MB. Hopefully > your system will not need to create swapfile(1)... ... n. But since > you can't do anything about it I wouldn't worry too much :-) . I have > 768 MB of ram in a beige G3 and seldom go over swapfile(0). The > programs that seem to require large amounts of VM are VPC and > Photoshop. And yes there is a way to turn off the VM system but I have > never tried it and I don't know if this will corrupt the rest of the > system. VM is really a integral part of Unix systems. Even after you > have all of these swapfiles they tend to go away as the system > releases RAM. Logging out and then back in will also reclaim memory. > Of course restarting will reclaim all of it and set you back to > swapfile(0). > > drjoe
I get it swapfile (0) is 80 mb in size which it doesn't mention. When that runs out of room it will then make a swapfile (1) which will also be 80 mb in size and so on. Thanks for taking the time to answer. This is very different from Linux swap files which I know more about. Will S -- 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
