|
|
|
|
| Welcome, Guest | Home | Search | Login | Register | |
| Author | HFS using swap partition? (Read 17853 times) | ||||||||||||||
|
alchemist
Guest |
on: May 02, 2008, 01:45
Planning to install 7.6.1 on a Power Mac 6500 w/ 64 mb ram using a SanDisk Ultra II CF drive. Does MacOS use swap, like the BSD's and other OS's? Should I configure a ram disk or virtual memory ? Anything else I need to know? Thanks in advance... Gary |
||||||||||||||
|
jjbomfim
|
32 MB  Posts: 55 
Reply #1 on: May 02, 2008, 02:31
|
My Powerbook 1400c has a CF card instead of a hard disk. I installed it as if it was a normal hard drive. Just booted from the 7.6 cd and chose the CF when the installer asked me to select a volume. No swap, no ram disk, nothing. It has worked fine ever since.
|
cr2032
|
64 MB Posts: 81 
Reply #2 on: May 02, 2008, 18:31
|
64MB at your 6500 is quite good amount of memory already in system 761. In order to speed up your internet browsing, you may create RAM disk. Then go to the internet browser to set the cache at the RAM disk. If you are going to run big applications, may be then you need to consider "virtual memory" that the system will automatically "swap" into that virtual memory on to your hard disk which is similar to Linux SWAP concept. Enjoy 
|
phummers
|
8 MB Posts: 8 
Reply #3 on: May 22, 2008, 00:57
|
I've had Macs in the past with very little RAM. I still partition my <OS X Mac drives to include a partition of 2-3x the RAM and name it MacSwap. I direct the Memory control panel to use it, usually to double the amount of my RAM. It's very stable and not slow, and the memory pages don't get written into the midst of my system or data files. (While I'm at it I'll carve out two 1-Gig partitions for Photoshop swap, too.)
|
|
Pages: [1]
|
| ||||
|
© 2021 System7Today.com. |
