scienceking
02-12-2008, 09:28 AM
I had been a full time Linux user for about 5 years until last fall when I switch my main laptop over to a Macbook Pro which I have now been using as my main development/workstation machine. As much as I still see OSX as having many faults over Linux, namely in the filesystem department, I also see the wonderful pros of the core services and the wonderful applications out for OSX that have made me more or less fall in love with it as a Unix workstation.
The one thing that I still cannot stand about OSX is the fact that it does not use a separate partition for swap. To me and my experience with this issue on *BSD and Linux, this is absurd for even a moderate poweruser to have to put up with. Luckly it looks like quite a few people on osx hints have figured out ways to liberate your swap space from your system partition for several versions of OSX, and have consequently sped up especailly pro macs running lots of pro apps quite nicely as one would expect. Unfortunately, I only have one Mac, and don't feel like breaking it as it is my main development machine in a quest to try out all the conflicting formulae to accomplish this task. So I think it would be a good episode topic for Systm to find a tried and true way to do this for Leopard and maybe Tiger too. I expect from what I've read that the methods will work out differently for each as they boot in different ways, but it seems like the tiger ways are pretty well understood while the reports of successes in Leopard with any given method seem less clear.
The one thing that I still cannot stand about OSX is the fact that it does not use a separate partition for swap. To me and my experience with this issue on *BSD and Linux, this is absurd for even a moderate poweruser to have to put up with. Luckly it looks like quite a few people on osx hints have figured out ways to liberate your swap space from your system partition for several versions of OSX, and have consequently sped up especailly pro macs running lots of pro apps quite nicely as one would expect. Unfortunately, I only have one Mac, and don't feel like breaking it as it is my main development machine in a quest to try out all the conflicting formulae to accomplish this task. So I think it would be a good episode topic for Systm to find a tried and true way to do this for Leopard and maybe Tiger too. I expect from what I've read that the methods will work out differently for each as they boot in different ways, but it seems like the tiger ways are pretty well understood while the reports of successes in Leopard with any given method seem less clear.