Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Disable Mac OS X Paging / Swap
I wondered why a Mac with a full 64Gb RAM was swapping even for simple surfing. I was seeing inexplicable beach-ball appearances. So did this:
Which switches the swap off and deletes the swap files.
My own process monitor confirms the machine runs slightly faster now, and have not seen the beach-ball since.
There is probably a down-side, but have yet to hit it.
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
sudo rm /private/var/vm/swapfile*
Which switches the swap off and deletes the swap files.
My own process monitor confirms the machine runs slightly faster now, and have not seen the beach-ball since.
There is probably a down-side, but have yet to hit it.
Labels: Lion, Mac OS X, Mac Pro
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