So I've noticed that OS X, while it does do a great job of dynamically allocating RAM, isn't using my RAM to its full potential. A perfect example would be the fact that usually I have over half of my physical RAM completely unused (I have a GB) yet the OS is still thrashing my hard disk with pageins and pageouts.
WTF?
I was wondering if anyone knew if I set the swapfile to /dev/null if that would completely break my system or just disable VM. I don't really see the need to use my hard disk when I have literally over 550MB of RAM completely untouched. Is this a bug? Is apple trying to make my machine more like a Wintel box? I don't get it.
Any help would be great!
thedbp
WTF?
I was wondering if anyone knew if I set the swapfile to /dev/null if that would completely break my system or just disable VM. I don't really see the need to use my hard disk when I have literally over 550MB of RAM completely untouched. Is this a bug? Is apple trying to make my machine more like a Wintel box? I don't get it.
Any help would be great!
thedbp