not that I am aware of. ----- 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 2:30 PM Subject: Re: Activity Monitor
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. > > ----- 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? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > > > >
