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Were you swapping/paging???
Authored by: barrysharp on Apr 11, '02 01:02:30AM

If your system was NOT swapping then any performance improvements (in your case dock icon bouncing -- ie launch times) are very unlikely to be attributable to your swapfile placement strategy.



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Another point to consider
Authored by: vertigo on Apr 11, '02 10:32:48AM
If I am not mistaken, you really are only going to see improvements from moving your swap drive to a different drive, not just a different partition on the same drive. You will probably get some boost if it is on a different partition on the same drive if it keeps the swap partition from becoming fragmented, but that would be only noticeable on systems that didn't have enough free space for a contiguous swap file. I concur with the previous posters that the speed gains were likely due to installing a fresh system. You may want to defrag and optimize your new install as there has been a lot of discussion about OSX installing highly fragmented right from the get go (I just did a clean install and it was a mess. Cleaned it up nicely with Norton Speed Disk and Diskwarrior).

Also, to get the most from your swap file, put it on a separate drive from OSX and make it the first partition on that drive - as you will gain the fastest seek times by having the swap file sitting on the outer tracks on the hard disk. Then when your swap file is being accessed it won't co-opt your main drive while it does it's business.

And lastly, the best solution is to get more RAM. I have 1.5GB and I rarely swap any information to disk. I even keep all applications open so they are practically "instant on". Good stuff, that RAM.

~vert

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Were you swapping/paging???
Authored by: WillyT on Apr 11, '02 06:20:16PM

I don't care what the naysayers think. If the swap partition keeps the spinning beachball away then its doing WHAT I WANT. If the systen feels faster and more useable that is what really counts!



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Were you swapping/paging???
Authored by: pagmac2001 on Apr 13, '02 03:51:20PM

Sorry but I have to warn you given my fresh - and scary- experience. Obviously, moving the swap files to a partition where there are other files (I'm talking of my big files plus Macos 9) messes everything up. For me, it just changed the owner of all the folders situated at the 1st level of the partition where I put the swap files (but not the files of folders inside those 1st level folders). As a result, I wasn't able to move, delete, modify any of those folders, as I got each time an error saying that this was impossible because any folder at stake belonged to root. Very annoying. Hopefully I was able, thanks to Alex281, cheers mate, to reallocate the owner name to me.

Now it works, but at a point I thought that my whole second partition was totally f... up.

PS: I used Swapcop to move the files



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