10.7.5 definitely will reduce swapfile size when programs free up memory.
Today, for example, I was at 8 GB of swap file, and now I'm down to 4 GB.
Earlier versions would not; at least as recently as 10.4, and I think 10.5 on
the PPC, swapfile space would only be reclaimed if everything after po
Agreed, except I'm at 4 GB (which I believe was the max for a MacBook Air 4,2)
And it seems like most people gasp when I tell them my swap file size(s).
So maybe (?) my particular case has something especially wrong with it...
(like, say, a Sandforce SSD)
On Dec 4, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Jochem Huh
There's a lot to be said for that.
neil
The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and a&&hole. Jello is the key to the
relationship.
> On Dec 4, 2013, at 13:19, Jochem Huhmann wrote:
>
> stuff all
> the memory sticks into your machine that it can take
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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
>
> […] but I don’t think the actual size of the swap files in there goes down
> unless you reboot in which case they get deleted.
I've definitely seen the number of swap files decrease. Rarely, but
I've seen it a handful of times.
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arno
Neil Laubenthal writes:
> I thought I understood this stuff…but Activity Monitor shows 8.11 GB
> of VM currently while I only have a 67MB and a 1GB actual swap file.
> Where does the over almost 7GB of VM reside?
In imaginary land... Most of this probably is memory mapped/reserved by
some proces
On Dec 4, 2013, at 12:41 PM, list boy wrote:
> Anyone know if there's a way (via the console/Terminal) to track swap file
> size, over time?
>
You can ls /private/var/vm of course…but I don’t think the actual size of the
swap files in there goes down unless you reboot in which case they get del
On 04 Dec 2013, at 10:41 , list boy wrote:
> Anyone know if there's a way (via the console/Terminal) to track swap file
> size, over time?
while TRUE; do date; ls -lh /var/vm/ ; sleep 60; done
?
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You know what they say about paradigms: Shift happens.
Anyone know if there's a way (via the console/Terminal) to track swap file
size, over time?
(I think data will help my cause)
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