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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Virtual Memory Question
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Date: 25 May 89 20:20:28 GMT
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Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger)
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In article ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>Will the virtual memory require a separate partition on the hard disk,
>or will there be a swap file? If the former, it seems like an awful lot
>of people will need to reformat their disks. Furthermore, what about
>people with 3rd party hard disks?
>If anyone could shed some light on this, I'd be interested.

If the Apple Virtual memory implemenation works like Connectix's, you
will not have to do anything other to insure that you have adequate
"contigious" space on your HD. Which at most would require that you run
a de-fragmenting program on your HD before running Virtual. Connectix
uses a file equal the amount of ram being used, ie 8 megs. This file
stores the memory data to be swapped in and out. I just hope that Apple's
implementation is configurable in  some way, so you can set the amount of
Virtual memory you want to use (or can afford on your HD)...