>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Kuper <[email protected]> writes:
Sam> Thanks for the tip, Randal. I've now installed iStat Menus, following Sam> your suggestion. Pity there isn't a way to show the swap size on the Sam> menubar directly, but clicking on the MEM icon is handy enough. Currently Sam> running at 508MB, which doesn't seem too bad, but so that I can benchmark Sam> your "if it's above 2GB, reboot" suggestion proportionally to my system, Sam> may I ask how much RAM your laptop has installed? I'm talking about the "swap" number, which is further down. And that's disk space that's *added* to your ram to give you more "virtual" ram. Unfortunately, as they say, virtual ram is *real* disk, and it's slow. But for your info, I have 3GB of ram installed. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
