Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Warning - may not work' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Warning - may not work
Authored by: E_James on Feb 25, '08 10:17:56AM
These instructions will not work if your 'Swap' partition has not mounted by the time the dynamic pager is launched. In my experience, this happens most (if not all) of the time. The failure is hard to spot, because it looks like it is working properly: You will see your swapfiles in /Volumes/Swap/.vm as expected. The problem is that the system creates its own dummy partition called 'Swap'. If you look at your mounted volumes in /Volumes, you will see both 'Swap' and 'Swap 1'. 'Swap 1' is the partition that you created, and it will not contain the swapfiles. The dummy partition that the system has created actually represents a folder on your boot partition.

Having said all of that, there is a solution, and this tip was an excellent starting point. A description of my solution can be found in this forum thread.

Essentially, it uses the com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist file to launch a shell script which waits for your 'Swap' partition to mount before allowing the dynamic_pager to initialize.

[ Reply to This | # ]