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    SubjectRe: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...


    --On January 22, 2006 11:55:37 AM -0800 "Barry K. Nathan"
    <barryn@pobox.com> wrote:

    > On 1/21/06, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
    >> A long time ago, when i was a kid, I had dream. It went like this:
    > [snip]
    >
    > FWIW, Mac OS X is one step closer to your vision than the typical
    > Linux distribution: It has a directory for swapfiles -- /var/vm -- and
    > it creates new swapfiles there as needed. (It used to be that each
    > swapfile would be 80MB, but the iMac next to me just has a single 64MB
    > swapfile, so maybe Mac OS 10.4 does something different now.)
    /var/vm/swap*
    64M swapfile0
    64M swapfile1
    128M swapfile2
    256M swapfile3
    512M swapfile4
    512M swapfile5
    1.5G total

    However only the first 5 are in use. the 6th just represents the peak swap
    usage on this machine. This is on 10.4.
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