Memory usage

[Adam Bridge]

VM size: 42.32 GB
Page Ins: 457.73 MB
Page outs: 2.41 MB
Swap used 21.12 MB



On 10/30/07, Shawn Erickson <shawnce at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/30/07, Adam Bridge <abridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone noticing that Leopard seems to really be sucking up memory
> > usage? I have lots of processes that are hovering on the 1 GB of VM
> > size and with 2GB of RAM in my MacBook Pro and running only 4 user
> > applications I have less than 22 MB of free RAM. This bothers me. I
> > imagine my swap/paging files growing at alarming rates.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Do you actually see swapping taking place? If not then you have
> nothing to generally worry about.
>
> Little free RAM is a good thing... it means that the system is
> leveraging physical RAM as much as possible to cache data/code.
>
> Not you could simply be seeing a simple change in how memory use is
> reported and not any real change in memory usage.
>
> (note I don't have Leopard going on my work systems yet so I cannot
> dig into it deeper until I go home)
>
> -Shawn
>