no, there is a virtual memory on the mac you can use. it is similar to that in windows in that it uses part of the hd to splat working stuff.
----- Original Message ----- From: "vashaun jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Activity Monitor What is virtual memory? Is it something in Fusion to represent the VM machines memory or something? On Mar 7, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Dan wrote: > Hello, > Hey Esther, thanks for the additional comments. As far as I'm > concerned the Activity monitor is really cool and it gives you a > true insight as to how things are running and where congestion might > be if you are having slowdowns for example. > Dan > On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:18 AM, Esther wrote: > >> HI, >> >> To add to Dan's comments on activity monitor, the information updates >> as it is monitored. So if you have selected one of the tabs for, >> say, CPU, >> and are looking at the %Usage for User (or System, or Idle), if you >> VO-keys right arrow and left arrow between the item you're checking >> and the reported usage you'll hear this change. >> >> To monitor specific processes you need to interact with the table. >> By default all processes are displayed. You can change this to >> show just your processes, or type a specific process, like Safari, >> into the search field. No big surprise that Safari is one of the >> major >> resource users. >> >> If you don't automatically see the window try typing command-1. >> This should bring up the main activity monitor window if it is >> closed (e.g., if you used command-w to dismiss it). >> >> Another thing that may be useful for the first few times you use >> Activity Monitor is to use command-s (or the save option under >> the file menu on the menu bar) and then export a list of your >> processes to a file that you can examine with TextEdit. Save >> the exported list as a process list. It'll give you some stats about >> active and free memory usage, and a list of processes with >> their (snapshot) %CPU and Virtual memory usage. This >> doesn't give you the other quick summary information that >> you might want to check using the tabs Dan mentioned, but >> may give you a feeling for what gets reported under the >> process tables. >> >> HTH. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> >> On Mar 07, 2008, at 05:32AM, Dan wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Activity monitor works really well with VO. >>> Just make sure you have the correct >>> tab selected for what you want to see. There are 5 tabs and tables >>> to >>> select. Depending on what Process Table you are looking for. >>> The Tabs are, CPU, System Memory, Disk Memory, Disc Usage and >>> Network. >>> Dan >>> On Mar 7, 2008, at 7:08 AM, David Poehlman wrote: >>> >>>> I've got a tone of info in mine. It came up working out of the box >>>> on my >>>> Macbook Pro. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "vashaun jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac >>>> OS >>>> X by >>>> theblind" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 8:39 AM >>>> Subject: Activity Monitor >>>> >>>> >>>> Listers are we supposed to be able to use activity monitor to >>>> display >>>> running processes like what is displayed in the Windows task >>>> manager? >>>> If so my main window pain isn't showing anything. Is this a >>>> accessibility issue or do I need to set something up to make it >>>> work? >>>> Also if this is not the right application for monitoring running >>>> processes, can you let me know what you guys use? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > >
