Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan

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From	Alan Baker <email@domain.com>
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Subject	Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan
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On 2015-08-03 12:16:07 +0000, Alan Browne said:

> On 2015-08-03 00:22, Alan Baker wrote:
>> On 2015-08-03 00:53:33 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>> 
>>> On 2015-08-02 13:42, JF Mezei wrote:
>>>> On 15-08-02 11:58, Alan Browne wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Which isn't the issue at heart.  The issue at heart is swapping.  Which
>>>>> by disabling paging is turned off.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Normally, the memory system would not page (and even less swap) if there
>>>> is sufficient RAM for everything, so normally, turning off paging would
>>>> do nothing.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Since I have far more memory than I need and OS X still swaps out it
>>> is flawed in some manner.  I'll wait for 10.11 and then disable paging
>>> and memory compression.  At least I know when I ran with paging
>>> disabled there were absolutely no swaps.  And no issues.
>> 
>> I'm sorry, but you're really making a big leap there...
>> 
> 
> Why should you be sorry?
> 
> I've disabled it in the past.  No problem over ~2 weeks.
> 
> Disabled memory compression in the past.  No problem over ~8 weeks.
> 
> When 10.11 is installed I'll be experimenting with it again.

You're making the leap that if it's still swapping it must be flawed.

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Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2015-07-31 11:26 -0400
  Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-31 11:47 -0400
    Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-31 12:01 -0400
      Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-31 12:07 -0400
        Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-31 12:36 -0400
          Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-31 12:46 -0400
            Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-31 13:45 -0400
              Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-31 14:06 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-01 10:35 -0400
          Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-07-31 20:52 +0000
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              Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-01 14:03 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-01 10:13 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-01 14:51 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-01 11:12 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-01 18:39 +0000
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                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-02 06:31 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-01 19:23 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan billy@MIX.COM - 2015-08-02 16:07 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-02 16:13 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-08-02 20:40 -0600
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan billy@MIX.COM - 2015-08-02 16:55 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-02 17:20 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-02 13:35 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-02 17:51 +0000
              Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-01 11:54 -0400
            Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-01 10:24 -0400
          Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-08-02 08:28 -0600
            Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-02 10:40 -0400
              Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 10:48 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-02 10:56 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 11:00 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-02 11:02 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 11:31 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-02 11:40 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 12:00 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan billy@MIX.COM - 2015-08-02 16:26 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-02 16:31 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan billy@MIX.COM - 2015-08-02 17:13 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-02 17:27 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 20:47 -0400
            Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 10:40 -0400
              Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-02 10:47 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 10:53 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-02 10:56 -0400
              Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-08-02 11:48 -0600
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 21:08 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-03 01:25 +0000
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-03 08:10 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-03 13:32 +0000
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        Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-31 17:24 -0400
          Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-07-31 15:30 -0700
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              Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-01 11:08 -0400
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          Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-01 11:02 -0400
            Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-01 12:08 -0400
              Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-01 19:22 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-01 22:06 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 09:36 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-02 11:39 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 11:58 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-02 13:42 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-02 20:53 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-02 21:31 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-03 08:12 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-03 15:42 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-05 09:06 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-02 21:22 -0700
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-03 08:16 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-03 20:56 -0700
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-05 09:11 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-05 12:40 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-05 18:53 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-06 00:02 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-08-06 16:25 +0100
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-06 11:25 -0400
                Re: Terminal command to disable disk swapping in El Capitan Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-06 11:33 -0400
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