Apple has publicly touted a significant new feature in OS X 10.9 Mavericks designed to maximize RAM, storage and CPU use while also boosting power efficiency: Compressed Memory.

Tackle stubborn disk partitioning in OS X If partitioning a drive with Disk Utility gives you unmount or resource busy errors, there may be workarounds you can use.

It notes: "Unlike most other UNIX versions, Mac OS X does not use a separate partition for the virtual memory swap file.

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Partitions allow a single mainframe to house multiple operating system 'guests.' Here are three approaches.

As most OS X users are probably aware "virtual memory" (or paging, in OS X's case) is always "on," as is the case with any modern operating system. It is an integral part of the kernel's ...

Urvashi Butalia talks to us about the horrors of partition, and how the memory of it persists on both sides of the border and across the world ...

The 499MB in the front is wierd. Usually it is that 100MB up front. OS and then maybe a manufacturer OS recovery partition. But I wouldn't touch them other then moving the 560MB to the end.

With uC/OS-MMU, each application is executed with the guarantee that no other application will influence, disturb or interact with its execution. Applications can be designed with different guest ...