Do you change this in any way to get better performance?
On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:05 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
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.
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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.
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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?
