Swap in separate partition in Jaguar?

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metiure

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Hi
In X.1, we all knew the trick of moving the swap file to another disk or partition to increase launching apps. in my case by 25%.

Now i'm on Jaguar and i'm not sure the trick is still neded, or even possible.

Thanks for answers

Vic.:cool:
 
Yep. All foreseeable versions of OSX will benefit from a dedicated swap partition, since the Virtual memory system has the read/write access and file system of that drive/partition all to itself. It's faster with a actual drive than a partition, but I still get about a 10% boost on another partition.

Swapcop is a easy tool for relocating the swapfile system.
 
after updating to 10.2 (and 10.2.1) from 10.1.5 i noticed my swap volume was my startup disk (as it is in a normal case) but i don't like that.
i rewrote rc + fstab (with informations from df) so my faster scsi disk contained the swap file(s).
this doesn't seem to work with 10.2(.1), i did it again (rewrote /etc/fstab + /etc/rc) and after a reboot the machine stopped at the gray apple logo with that spinning circle thing and a prompt (like you would end up in super-user mode).
i changed rc + fstab back to normal (on my updated 10.2.1 fstab wasn't there before making any changes) and the system booted normal again.
behind the curtain (using boot -v (verbose startup)) i get a bus error 35 followed by a bus error 37 when starting the vm system...

i tried it manually cuz swapcop didn't do anything...any ideas?
 
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