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NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:02:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Improved memory management? (10.11)
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From: Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:02:59 -0400
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On 2015-10-14 04:01, Lewis wrote:
> In message <z-KdnRoaPdgrDIDLnZ2dnUU7-fWdnZ2d@giganews.com>
>    Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 2015-10-12 18:49, Lewis wrote:
>>> In message <ZKWdnUF-f_Sme4bLnZ2dnUU7-RednZ2d@giganews.com>
>>>     Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>> I'm not leading a charge for everyone to turn off swap and mem
>>>> compression.
>
>>> And yet you claim it results in "measurable improvement." That is a lie,
>>> and it is misleading to anyone reading that doesn't understand how swap
>>> in OS X works.
>
>> It results in measurable activity that isn't needed: the writing of swap
>> files that are not needed.
>
> "measurable improvement" in performance was a lie. Is a lie.

Use that word as freely as you like.  Your insistence on it is actually 
cute.

Swap is not needed when there is enough RAM.  That it writes to disk is 
measurable.  If there is little RAM and swapping occurs, you'll get to 
measure it all you like watching the spinning wheel.