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Swap partition size
Authored by: Anonymous on Aug 11, '04 08:53:44AM

You can turn HFS journalling off, which I do. And the comment about fragmentation not being a problem on a swap partition is still relevant. If you're smart and put nothing else on that partition, it essentially gets cleaned out each time you reboot.

Further, 1 GB swap is foolishly, dangerously low for a MacOS X install. I have 1 GB of installed RAM, and I -regularly- get over 2GB of swapfiles dropped on my disk. My personal "high-water" mark for my usage is 4 GB of swap files, and so I made my partition 6 GB. It is always safer to be a little generous, since MacOS X behaves very poorly when it starts running out of swap space. In the days of 10.1, you could panic your machine. Panther seems to be a bit more tolerant, but odd errors will occur.



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