>From: Wayne Folta <wfolta@...> >>Yes. In fact it is *so* robust it doesn't even break when it decides to >>smash other, more fragile things, like your preferences for instance , >>to pieces. >It may be that the OS throws out non-critical files to attempt to make >space and in one sense prefs are "non-critical", though they're so >small I can't see them really making a difference, so I still suspect >that it's not VM at all. You're trying to write to a disk that's full. >But that's not the fault of the VM, which is highly reliable and >efficient. (Especially compared to OS 9's "virtual memory".) This type of OS behavior is indefensible, doesn't matter the OS or the platform. User/Program generated files should never be written over. Are you sure there isn't an option hidden away that allows a permanent swap file of a defined size? HW