Comments on: OS X performance tweak? http://atastypixel.com/blog/os-x-performance-tweak/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mikael http://atastypixel.com/blog/os-x-performance-tweak/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Mikael Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:31:21 +0000 http://atastypixel.com/blog/327-os-x-performance-tweak.html#comment-150 <p>I've never had any problems with crashing apps but noticed that the maxvnodes value should not be set to high, depending on the amount of available RAM of course.</p> <p>Crashing may be because of a damaged filesystem or cache. May be easily fixed with a program like AppleJack. http://applejack.sourceforge.net/</p> <p>For 1 gig of RAM is the default ~17000 and after some experimentation I found the ideal balance between available RAM for system, apps and vnodes: 65535.</p> <p>My Mac feels a lot faster even if it throws out to VM now and then, maybe because VM is faster to access than a lot of files elsewhere on the HD.</p> I’ve never had any problems with crashing apps but noticed that the maxvnodes value should not be set to high, depending on the amount of available RAM of course.

Crashing may be because of a damaged filesystem or cache. May be easily fixed with a program like AppleJack. http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

For 1 gig of RAM is the default ~17000 and after some experimentation I found the ideal balance between available RAM for system, apps and vnodes: 65535.

My Mac feels a lot faster even if it throws out to VM now and then, maybe because VM is faster to access than a lot of files elsewhere on the HD.

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