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This entire thing is moronic...
Authored by: Anonymous on Dec 27, '01 03:59:41PM

Moving the swapfile doesn't make a damn bit of difference! What's the difference to the system between volumes? An inch or so of drive head movement. On modern drives that distance takes MILLISECONDS to move. Besides, the system is smart enough to grab a contiguous 80MB chunk when it builds a new file. If it can find one, that is; and if it doesn't your drive is so horribly fragmented that performance is now no longer a VM issue. And the VM system uses chunky allocation anyway - the most efficient way to allocate space. The ONLY time this hack would help is if you were badly thrashing (totally out of memory, swapping entire processes out), and even then it would be much too little much too late.

Moving the swapfile does absolutely NOTHING to reduce pageouts! The pageouts still occur normally - the hack claims to reduce only the time needed to execute the paging.



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Sorry about double post!
Authored by: Anonymous on Dec 27, '01 04:04:43PM

OmniWeb was being odd and wouldn't load the page after I clicked post, so I stopped and hit post again. Stupid thing to do. ;D



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