On Jan 12, 2005, at 1:51 PM, David Klaus wrote:
It depends on what you are doing with the system. Since you already have OS X installed, open the program 'Activity Monitor' in the Applications:Utilities directory and select the Memory display. It will report on how much memory is Active, Inactive, and Free. What you need to watch for is the number of Page Ins/Outs continuing to increase as you do you normal tasks. If they are going up, then the system is having to swap thing to and from disk so you are out of memory and need more.===========================
I just checked the activity monitor and my system is using several times more virtual memory than RAM memory. I have 1.5 GB of RAM in this G4. Is there a way to turn off virtual memory in OS X?
James K Morgan
You can not turn VM off in OS X - it is a Unix issue. Don't sweat the size of VM, other than to have enough free disk space, worry about page ins/outs as that is activity reading from and writing to disk.
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