On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
> I have a system memory question to refresh my personal memory. I have > a DA with 1GB (1024MB) ram installed running 10.4.11. After running > my system all day (I shut down every night) and not quitting any apps > (13 are open), just closing the unused documents, the System Memory > portion of Activity Monitor shows: > > Wired 103.24 MB > Active 589.93 MB > Inactive 314.41 MB > Free 14.64 MB > > VM size 7.90GB > Page ins/ outs 50890/3877 > > My questions/ comments for verification are: > > IIRC, the actual "free memory" is the combined inactive and free. > Correct? > Yes, turn on the Menu Meters Memory widget that that's what it'll tell you for 'Free Memory' at the top Free+Inactive. > So, in theory, I am not choking my system and work habits with "only" > 1 GB of ram. Yeah, that looks mostly normal, Right this moment I've got 27 MB free on my system and it's got 2Gigs, running 8 programs (though one is Fusion running a XP instance) You have a pretty high VM footprint, though. Mine is only 2.2G right now. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
