Recent content by Dominion

hmmm, I have to admit I hate debugging Dialup errors over text mediums.. The output looks quite normal, for a line that has "died". This can of course be a number of things... 1) Someone picked up the line ? 2) The line got noise or a chop across it ? 3) The line isn't good enough to...

Not sure, given that the dynamic pager pays no attention, nor does the kernel to the swaptab :-/ Someone else pointed out that the libraries/kernel lacks the actual functions that enable swap in kernel space, as opposed to a user space application like dynamic_pager. As such, swaptab is...

You have to wonder why so many people care if OSX is Unix or not. Does it really make a difference what's under the bonet so long as it gets you from 0 to 100 in a few seconds ? I really don't think so. As for AUX, I somehow get the impression that is is somewhat famed like SCO. It's one...

I doubt you'll see any performance increase.. possibly even a slowdown do to slower speed spindles. The troublesome thing is, that until you're really swapping hell out of the disks you wont really notice much difference. I've been running OSX for a few weeks now, and I'm still yet to see it...

Tell your friend, that no "unix" variant is True Unix unless as someone stated it's AT&T Unix. Everything is a look-n-feel-a-like, in the truest sense. However, as we're all well adjusted human beings, it's plain to see that Darwin (the underlying Unix of OSX) seems to be a pretty well...

The -L and -H options are not limits they are watermarks on when to purge or increase the swap space. Basically if you hit your High watermark, it will create a second -S <SIZE>'ed file for swapping. if you hit it's low water mark after a period of time it will purge the file of any unused...

TRUE unix ? Never heard of such guff.. and I've used just about every unix that exists at least once in my life... I guess it's refering to what a person calls a unix operating system. a "true" unix is then I guess is one that has a kernel and an OS and complies to certain standards.. POSIX...

Security on a machine is a Myth, unless the box is turned off and buried. Or better yet, never built in the first place. If you're the kind of anal person who is going to ensure that no-one can get at their machine, you would not be turning off this and that but ALL of it.. Otherwise, of...

That's what I meant in "fixed disk paging". Static sized swap areas. But OS-X doesn't support that. Oh what's more, I read that the mach_swapon function seems to support compression in the swap area. read 'man swaptab' for more info. This would explain why the VM reported by 'top' is...

I can't tell you how to use analog 100% it's been a while since I used it ;-) but.. open a terminal window, and run the app like such ./analog --help it should list a heap of options. (I'm assuming you've un-stuffed the download etc, and done a cd...

It will probably not give you much of a performance difference unless you're running many programs each needed large gobs of virtual memory. Now, to straighten the lies on VM a bit, under unix all memory both Physical and Disk based is terms "virtual memory" it exists in one big pool. Here...

umm I was going to compile up a copy and offer it as an install package.. but.. You need a heap of other libraries and crap to run it, or I could compile it static, but to do that I need a system library in OSX to support static compiles (libcrt) and unfortunately it don't.. so erm well I...

Basically to disable dynamic_pager you need to comment out the line in the file /etc/rc What I'll do is give you a patch file to do it for you, it will setup the hostconfig file so that the dynamic pager is turned OFF by default, and you can enable it again but simply updating that flag...

You can look in /private/var/log/httpd/access_log at Apache (web server) logs for access to the site. For something a little more readable, grab hold of a log analyser like Analog or Webalizer both are GPL apps available almost anywhere. And will provide you with a simple HTML output and...

Easy as :-) open a terminal, type in : sudo vi /etc/rc (enter YOUR account password when prompted) hit SHIFT-G (takes you to the bottom of the file) go up a few lines and find this line dynamic_pager -H 40000000 -L 160000000 -S 80000000 -F ${swapdir}/swapfile with the cursour...