{"id":7663,"date":"2005-09-12T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/12\/pagefile-on-os-x\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:39","slug":"pagefile-on-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/12\/pagefile-on-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Pagefile on OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posting this from <lj user=macosx> because of smarter people here. Please delete if inappropriate.]<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone here have any pointers to <em>good<\/em> info on OS X&#8217;s pagefile? It appears that it is all handled by <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/Darwin\/Reference\/ManPages\/man8\/dynamic_pager.8.html\">dynamic pager (8)<\/a>, but I&#8217;m having a hard time finding info beyond simply moving the pagefile to another disk.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I&#8217;m asking is because, in my experience, one can greatly improve paging performance by allocating pagefile space on multiple spindles. As I&#8217;ve got a pair of disks in my G5, that&#8217;s exactly what I&#8217;d like to do.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, it looks like dynamic_pager can only take one argument for the base filename for the pagefile. Hopefully this isn&#8217;t the case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posting this from because of smarter people here. Please delete if inappropriate.] Does anyone here have any pointers to good info on OS X&#8217;s pagefile? It appears that it is all handled by dynamic pager (8), but I&#8217;m having a hard time finding info beyond simply moving the pagefile to another disk. The reason\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13964,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions\/13964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}