Instead of keeping stuff in ram for the future like on Windows, it releases unused memory. However on a Mac, memory management is much better. Windows tries to move things out from ram into swap as quickly as it can, leading to the hard drive thrashing. Yes, the HDD is slower, but one thing you have to remember is you are using a Mac, not Windows. I love listening to Security Now and you can go both ways on this. So anyway, I think it'sĪ perfect example of two different people with very different aspects Writing to the pagefile, which it does a lot. I mean, we've all seen, we've watched the hardĭrive light flickering there, like when nothing is going on. Less than they're reading, but it's something that's going on all the I agree that, from a performance standpoint, the SSD is a perfectĭevice for containing the pagefile. You've done that, then turn off pagefiles.
RAM is much less expensive, and you'll get much more, you'll get hugeīenefit from going to the most RAM you can possible get. Have invested money in as much RAM as your system can handle because Using an SSD, hopefully before you have gone to the expense of usingĪn SSD, which is still much more expensive than a hard drive, you will And so, anyway, so my advice stands, which is, if you're I mean, in a relatively short time it just Performed the experiment of using an SSD for a swap file and watching STEVE: And Mark Thompson and I have discussed this at length. Note I have a MacBookPro with SSD & HDD both in it (using the optical drive bay).
Should I move the swap location for my Mac from the SSD to the larger HDD in my laptop?īackground information: I've heard some suggestions in the general PC/Windows world that if you have an SSD for your OS and HDD for your user data, you should move the swap location/swap file away from the SSD to the HDD (perhaps re protecting the hits on the SSD perhaps).
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