Troubleshooting Mac OS X 10.2.x: Bloated Swap FilesWe have received several individual reports of swap file bloating, ranging from minor dips in storage capacity to complete crippling of the ...

I have to conclude that moving swap files to a USB flash drive is not a good idea under Mac OS X 10.4.9, not only because of the temporary and permanent hangs, but also because flash drives have a ...

"Swap" is the name of the partition I have set aside for my swap files. All partitions (except the one Mac OS X resides on) are mounted in the "/Volumes" folder, hence the need to put it as the ...

The amount of memory used on your Mac computer can fluctuate depending on how memory is being managed. The term "memory," as defined by Apple, includes RAM, virtual memory and swap files, which ...