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Another point to consider
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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