Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Startup disk has no more space available. Date: 14 Dec 2014 12:13:52 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <2014113009023929637-tomevans9890@yahooca> <547b6c01$0$5134$b1db1813$65575428@news.astraweb.com> <2014113012110662970-tomevans9890@yahooca> <5488b1b7$0$26703$2c56edd9@usenetrocket.com> <5489326c$0$43014$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 8xlTzsFbEkDVbQGLUndutgMtmQubBpjIHG16zv4ovb6PEj51VI Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kjdi6Yooxj42hdCcADUAWXa//O0= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:67612 On 2014-12-14, Paul Sture wrote: > On 2014-12-11, JF Mezei wrote: >> This thread has made me curious. >> >> Where in Yosemite, does one turn off VM ? I remember MacOS being able >> to do that in early versions where it started to support VM. But haven't >> seen this in ages. >> >> I can see that if you turn off VM, page/swap files would no longer be >> needed. I could see that if you could limit total virtual memory space >> to that of RAM, nothing would ever get paged out, but i am not even sure >> this is possible, and if so, whether virtual memory space would be a per >> process limit or system-wide limit. >> >> Can a modern X86 64 bit chip run without virtual memory enabled ? > > Yes. Switching off the swapfile is also possible with Windows Server > (2008 onwards), with the caveat that if you run out of physical memory > a crash is the result. Reason #6,782 that Windows Is Shit. -- Today is Pungenday, the 56th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3180 "The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics." Christopher Hitchens.