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Move swap to another partition, revisited again
Authored by: MacManiac on Jun 17, '05 01:01:13PM

I've been using a dedicated swap partition on my G3 Powerbooks (both Lombards and Pismos) since 10.1.3 --- when I installed Tiger on a 60GB expansion bay drive to explore its' features/flaws, I chose to leave it unmodified.

FWIW, while having swap on a separate partition may not enhance performance directly, I have found that having swapfiles separate from the rest of my data has been effective in minimizing drive fragmentation and directory issues.

I also maintain a small bootable partition for OS 9.2.2 for those rare times when I might need it......I still run MacDraw Pro for a few projects.

After more than a month of flawless performance, this looks like it may be my first "under the hood" maneuver with Tiger.



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Move swap to another partition, revisited again
Authored by: mattyturner on Jul 12, '05 04:57:09AM
FWIW, while having swap on a separate partition may not enhance performance directly, I have found that having swapfiles separate from the rest of my data has been effective in minimizing drive fragmentation and directory issues

I thought swapfiles were always contigious anyway?



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Move swap to another partition, revisited again
Authored by: MacManiac on Jul 15, '05 10:43:00AM

"I thought swapfiles were always contigious anyway?"

While each swap file may be contiguous, when more than one is generated there is no guarantee that each will be contiguous to the next......and on every shutdown/restart a fresh swapfile is created to replace the one(s) that were removed on restart.



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