[OSX-Users] Re: Lion problems

[Jules Field]

On 31/07/2011 12:56, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> Thanks Phil,
>
> On 31 Jul 2011, at 11:55, Philip Boulain wrote:
>
>> On 31/07/2011 10:45, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>>> 1) MenuMeters reports that my swap files are encrypted.
>>> I don't want this, as it was bad enough before when they got big, watching the system occasionally thrash.
>>> Now it is certainly worse.
>>> Of course, it may be that MenuMeters is reporting wrongly, and it is something else?
>>> If not, anyone any idea how to switch it off?
>> I could have sworn it was via pmset's hibernatemode (looking at past mails, perhaps it used to be), but apparently not:
>>
>> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/dynamic_pager.8.html
>>
>>  From the look of that you want to open
>> /Library/Preferences/com.apple.virtualMemory.plist
>> find "UseEncryptedSwap", and toggle it to off. IIRC OS X has a pretty GUI editor for plist files that should open by default.
> I thought I might need to get into a plist somewhere, and that is the right one.
> And I was guessing perhaps I switched it off a while ago.
> But it gets a bit more interesting.
> UseEncryptedSwap is not set.
> So has Lion started ignoring UseEncryptedSwap - who knows?
Yes it has, see my recent posting.

Jules

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