Virtual Memory Settings in Mac OS

[Greg Alexander]

Does turning on virtual memory in MacOS make a significant performance
difference?  I hadn't noticed.

GREG

samuel@ibrium.se wrote:
> 
> 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
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