We have received several individual reports of swap file bloating, ranging from minor dips in storage capacity to complete crippling of the system's main volume. Based on the information we have so ...
"Swap" is the name of the partition I have set aside for my swap files. All partitions (except the one Mac OS X resides on) are mounted in the "/Volumes" folder, hence the need to put it as the first ...
Our previous article "Understanding Pageouts in Mac OS X 10.2.x" explored the issue of unusually high spikes in memory usage, generally resulting in an increased number of pageouts, and therefore ...