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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
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 20:56:04 -0700
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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.