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SwapMenu

SwapMenu - 1.1

status menu which displays swap file size

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Current Version: 1.1
Release Date: 2004-12-07
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 1,101
Downloads (all versions): 1,648

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Product Description:

SwapMenu is a small Status Item-based Mac OS X application. It runs in the background and places a global item in the menu bar which displays the size of the virtual memory swap files currently in use on your computer.

What's new in this version:

  • Now possible to specify the location of the swap files, with "/var/vm" being the default

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

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SwapMenu Usage TipA great indicator - Version: 1.1, 12/16/2006 10:38PM PST

eddie_ame
I like having tools that tell me at a glance what is going on with my computer, this works very well as such. Not the best at moving the swap file but great at letting me know what apps are a little ram hungry and when it would be a good time to restart, for me that is 1.0G or greater.
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SwapMenu Usage Tiphardcode alternate swap location in sourcecode - Version: 1.0, 8/17/2004 02:36AM PST

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hede
Well, it appears that hardcoding my alternative swap location does in fact work.
I was tricked to believe it didn't work because at first I had tested swapmenu with a default swap location, and there it showed swap size increasing in 256 MB blocks, whereas on my dedicated swap-volume, it increases in single-MB steps.
I imagine this could be related to my swap volume being UNIX formatted.

In xCode change this line:
[task setArguments: [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"-hs", @"/var/vm/", nil]];

Of course we're waiting for the developer to gui this.
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SwapMenu Troubleshooting ReportSwapfiles in non-standard location - Version: 1.0, 8/15/2004 04:11PM PST

hede
I have my swapfiles on a different partiton, and they're not seen.
I tried to modify the included sourcecode at the line where it appears that the standard location is hardcoded. The reading changed from 0 to 13K.

Not exactly a fix, just my observations.

With a standard swap-location and original app the reading is correct.
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