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DateSun, 22 Jan 2006 22:23:43 -0700
FromMichael Loftis <>
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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