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drAlberT
Asked: 2009-08-04 02:06:15 +0800 CST

How to change the SWAP file disk in Mac OS X?

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I have moved my system on andexternal Raid 1 enclosure attachet to my iMac through Firewire 800 (the best an iMac can do ;-( ) ...

I'd like to move the swap on the internal disk in order to increase somehow the performances ...

How can I achieve this task?

Thank you in advance

performance mac-osx mac swap performance-tuning

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  1. Best Answer

    Here's the 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.3 (Panther) solution:

    http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/OSX/swapfile/

    And here's the 10.5 (Leopard) version:

    http://www.sysarchitects.com/node/90

    Of course it probably makes more sense to just add enough RAM that you don't swap, it's really cheap to have 4GB in any machine these days.

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