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10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
Someone might be interested to know that Swap Cop (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13514) works just fine in Panther.
DO NOT USE Swap Cop!!! - NO LONGER SUPPORTED!!
I looked at the Swap Cop perl script and StartupItems. Interestingly, the author suggested his implementation as a change to Darwin's core, but it never was considered. The discussion of this can be found at the following URL: http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/hackers/2002-August/000247.html Swap Cop overrides the /etc/rc method entirely, but it MAY NOT WORK if your selected Swap volume isn't properly mounted. AND after the above referenced discussion, the AUTHOR NO LONGER SUPPORTS SWAP COP!!! This has danger written all over it!! Sure it may work in situation-normal, but in stress testing.... well go ahead and live dangerously!! ---
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
SwapCop does ***NOT*** work past OS X 10.1.x!!!
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
I (and many others) DID HAVE Swap Cop properly manage swap file relocation in 10.1, 10.2 and now 10.3. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about.
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
Federico, here is the output of the command you suggest:
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
If that's your output from Panther, then I would have to suggest you have some other mods going on; J. Schrier himself will tell you that SwapCop 1.1.2 will not function due to a change in load order of Startup Items versus RC code. If it's working, I'd guess it's because someone commented out the dynamic pager line in /etc/rc, or, you've still got your /etc/rc file from Jaguar.
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
As I sed I (and others, people I know that is) have used SwapCop to successfully relocate swap file in 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3. Period.
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
In any event, there is no real risk in using SwapCopLost data isn't much of a risk in my book either... :-) ---
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
Pie, you ain't funny, really...
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
Am too!
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
I never meant to imply that using SwapCop was at all dangerous -- not sure where you read that into my statements -- indeed, SwapCop was not only a simple, elegant, easy to use solution in Jaguar, but Joshua Schrier and Scott Boone had the intelligence and foresight to allow SwapCop to fail gracefully in the event that the OS or /etc/rc file were to change in future. For most people under Panther, this is the case.
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
Ok, let's get this straight: with my original post I did not mean to criticise the suggested strategy for swap relocation, but just point out an (easier) alternative that worked for me (and others); no animosity expressed or implied. That sed, I'm not knowledgeable enough of the OSX boot process to get into the technicality of the discussion. I DO NOT MEAN TO BE POLEMIC.
10.3: Move swap to another partition in Panther
For the sake of completeness, this is /etc/hostconfig (the second file that SwapCop modifies in your system): |
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