Given my late 2006 iMac a new lease of life

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Sysman replied

25 January 2012, 17:22
As I found out when I was suffering power cuts (laptop booted off external Firewire disk so the system carried on but the disk didn't), OS X isn't very tolerant of the system disk going offline, and I strongly suspected that was down to swap activity.

If you do put your swapfiles on your external FW disk, don't knock it offline by accident.
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scooterscot replied

25 January 2012, 14:28
Sounds scary. Let see what this Xupport app is all about claims to do the job in a couple of clicks.
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NickFitz replied

25 January 2012, 14:21
Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

Is there an easy way to tell the OS to use the external FW 800 drive for swapfiles?

There's osx - Moving the swapfiles to a dedicated partition in Snow Leopard - Super User but I don't know how reliable that would be with an external drive. Then there's osx - Moving the OS X swap file to a faster drive - Super User which has an answer mentioning a commercial solution. Then there's Moving Swap on OS X 10.5 Leopard | SysArchitects which includes the excellent note "You'd have to be nuts to do this. The existing pager settings work fine."
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scooterscot replied

25 January 2012, 14:13
Is there an easy way to tell the OS to use the external FW 800 drive for swapfiles?
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NickFitz replied

25 January 2012, 13:58
Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

disable flash content in Safari with click to flash. Holly sheet. Swap file access is almost non-existent now. Death to flash.

I've been using ClickToFlash for ages. I reckon it's increased the life of my MacBook's fan by several orders of magnitude
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Ignis Fatuus replied

25 January 2012, 13:34
Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

disable flash content in Safari with click to flash. Holly sheet. Swap file access is almost non-existent now. Death to flash.

Isn't that exactly what Steve Il Jong always said?
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scooterscot started a topic Given my late 2006 iMac a new lease of life

25 January 2012, 12:48
Given my late 2006 iMac a new lease of life

disable flash content in Safari with click to flash. Holly sheet. Swap file access is almost non-existent now. Death to flash.
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