Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Improved memory management? (10.11) Date: 12 Oct 2015 16:20:11 GMT Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <561aadff$0$4073$c3e8da3$12bcf670@news.astraweb.com> <2POdnQV2KJvyX4fLnZ2dnUU7-aGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <-dydnR2SCtiTcIfLnZ2dnUU7-S2dnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Ogcr15hpKNsREXc9zrRv/Q3lvf9XFO43AO3TQ8/qsNeDt3GlKE Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= sha1:CJwi6t22WBje2pzId4LfysMiBKE= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.0 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:83267 Alan Browne wrote: > On 2015-10-11 22:38, Jolly Roger wrote: >> On 2015-10-11, Alan Browne wrote: >>> On 2015-10-11 17:47, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>> On 2015-10-11, Alan Browne wrote: >>>>> On 2015-10-11 17:01, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>>>> On 2015-10-11, Alan Browne wrote: >>>>>>> On 2015-10-11 16:21, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2015-10-11, Alan Browne wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 2015-10-11 15:51, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On 2015-10-11, Alan Browne wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> 2. As I've mentioned in the past I've operated OS X with both swap and >>>>>>>>>>> compression disabled to no ill effect. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> What effects were there? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The system worked fine, which is an acceptable effect. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Was the system working fine before you disabled swap and compression? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yep. >>>>>> >>>>>> I was under the impression there was a measurable improvement. >>>>> >>>>> There's an observable improvement: no swaps occur. >>>> >>>> No, that's an effect with no apparent improvement in processing speed or >>>> efficiency. >>> >>> A swap on my system is a hard disk write. That takes time. Whereas not >>> swapping takes 0 time. Measurable? I suppose it can be done but I >>> don't have the hooks into the OS to do it. >> >> If you have to hook the OS to measure it, then there was no apparent >> improvement. Seems like a complete waste of time to me, but whatever >> floats your boat. Personally, I have way better things to do than >> babysit a computer that exhibits no symptoms of a problem. > > There is a problem. Not an apparent performance problem. Better things to do. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR