Re: [NTLK] [OT] Re: speed: OS X's fault

From: L.W. Brown <lwb_at_mac.com>
Date: Wed Sep 23 2009 - 04:53:10 EDT

Comments at the <http://cestdelamerde.com> site (as of 8/31) say
SnoLoep is "significantly tuned," "much better," and "properly
functioning...huge improvement"...
   (That's also where I read the warning about copying using swap...)
More research-
Very interesting discussion: <http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=81586
> (got me to change my prior approach))
   and: <http://superuser.com/questions/28414/moving-the-swapfiles-to-a-dedicated-partition-in-snow-leopard
>
Also see: <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2000927>
   and: <http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13968>
Swap: <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/msg/442b0f12dc70dca2
>
   and: <http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=439617>
Swap in Solaris: <http://www.itworld.com/swol-0496-perf?page=0%2C1>
Discussing Lingon: <http://www.maciverse.com/case-of-the-slow-mac-ii-the-memory-hog.html
>
All in all, it seems that many folks like turning off swapping, and
many others warn against it - I'll just update to SnoLoep.
:^)

On 23. Sep., 2009, at 00:29 AM, Bob Carls Dudney wrote:

>> on SnoLeop memory mgt has (reportedly) dramatically improved
>
> Is that report(s) in addition to the link I posted for compiling a
> new dynamic_pager? (That post didn't use any dramatic words.)

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