On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > > 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. That is what MenuMeters says. I guess Apple is showing off it's Unix goodlyness and knowledge over the simplification that MenuMeters shows. >> 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. I have two processes with over 1GB of virtual memory: TruBlue Environment (classic) 1.13GB kernel task 1.05GB and the following, each with over 250MB of virtual memory Adobe Reader 340.36 MB WindowServer 335.61 MB Firefox 332.00 MB Safari 319.49 MB Excel 266.79 MB Mail 257.23 MB and 19 other processes using at least 100MB of virtual memory Thanks for your input, Bruce --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
