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10.4: Move swap files to another drive
Authored by: TigerKR on Feb 10, '06 07:11:28PM

On the hardware side, more RAM should always be your first upgrade, so you can avoid VM swapping as much as possible. Faster spinning HDs (more Rpm) with more lanes for traffic (more MBps) are also a good upgrade (although they can get expensive) so that when you do swap, at least it won't take as long. Besides, with a faster HD, everything is faster, from boot-up, to app launch, to file reads, to file writes.

Another way to keep your system Snappy™ is to keep your files and filesystem de-fragmented. Tiger has some limited de-fragmentation built in.



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