Virtual Memory Settings in Mac OS

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Wed, 7 Aug 2002 16:19:39 +0200


On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:29:17PM +0200, Francois Taiani wrote:
> Jouko-Thomas Kleine wrote:
> >     How important is it not to use virtual memory in Mac OS (under MOL)? 
> > I boot into Mac OS both from Linux through MOL and directly when i start 
> > my iBook, and I'm kind of short of memory when I'm not using MOL... 
> 
> As far as I can tell about the virtual memory of MacOS, it made my mol 
> (0.9.63-2) instable, so I disabled it, and allocated more memory to mol 
> in molrc ("ram_size: 125"). This of course is fine to me because I very 
> rarely boot directly into MacOS ...
> 
Well, there were a couple of MMU related bugs in 0.9.63 and earlier. With
0.9.64 there shouldn't be any problems.

The performance difference will be about the same as in the "real" MacOS.

/Samuel