On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 09:12 AM, Olivier Cinquin wrote: I have not seen this message with MacOS X, however when MacOS X is adding swap spaces in /var/vm, it runs like a slug. I experienced this feature early in MacOS X, so I modified /etc/rc and changed the arguments to dynamic_pager to dynamic_pager -H 40000000 -L 576870920 -S 536870912 -F ${swapdir}/swapfile So now it creates 524MB swap spaces instead on 80MB, and its performance was much more predictable. Yes, this was extremely helpful. I don't have an problem anymore. I wonder why your modification isn't the default setting? Olivier Glad it helped, did you notice how many swapfiles MacOS X created before making this modification ? Default System Configuration is always a compromise, so Apple were going for the 90%, and more importantly stability for the 90%. Personally, I'd rather see a primary swap partition so that any kernel panics can be collected (option) with savecore, instead of having to either copy down a screen of info, or taking a picture of it. On the dynamic_pager side, it might be better to use real memory as a factor for its arguments. Philip -- email: philip_parker@mac.com #include <std_disclaimer> _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.