On 13/05/2012, at 11:34 AM, Steven Knowles wrote:
> Ray, excellent overview and good job at layman-ising the terminology used.
> Thank you.
>
> Ronni, thanks for the extra detail ... I was beginning to doubt my grasp of
> English.
>
> Robin, thanks for the note that recent Safari updates actu
Ray, excellent overview and good job at layman-ising the terminology used.
Thank you.
Ronni, thanks for the extra detail ... I was beginning to doubt my grasp of
English.
Robin, thanks for the note that recent Safari updates actually address these
issues. I'd seen and installed the latest OS u
Steven,
The most likely issue is that your memory leakage is caused by a browser you
are running. You haven't said what you are using, but bit recent versions of
both Firefox and Safari have had memory leak issues. Once this happens you
start getting many pageouts to disk and your system slows a
Hi Steven,
I understand your confusion, it always confused me ;-) The confusion began in
Leopard...
In OSX Leopard rather than giving a ‘count’ of 'page in' and 'page outs', it
gives a size in GB of the amount of RAM that has been paged in or out.
The numbers are smaller but the same principal
Steven,
The 'System Memory' part of 'Activity Monitor' is slightly arcane, so to help
you get a better understanding of memory and OS X I have, from several sources,
plagiarised and modified the following. I hope this is clearer than mud:
1 all memory in OS X is 'virtual'. Some of that virtua
I'm with you Ronni, up until:
> This number indicates how many times your Mac has run out of available memory
> and used your hard drive as virtual RAM. This number should be as low as
> possible.
> I like the number to be less than 2000 during a full day's use of my Mac.
> Others suggest a hig
Hi Steven,
You 'might' have some sort of memory leak; but Insufficient RAM and Free Hard
Space do cause the problems you are experiencing.
I'll try to type a fairly short response to your queries. I did post a long
time back to WAMUG explaining 'Real Memory' & 'Virtual Memory' in OS X.
I alw
Thanks Ronni.
> Have you checked your RAM usage in Activity Monitor?
There's always been adequate RAM for my use, other than the odd occasion when
more would be nice, which no doubt most people run into now and again. I don't
think I've ever bought a Mac without immediately doubling the RAM, b
Hi Steven,
Have you checked your RAM usage in Activity Monitor?
Use Activity Monitor to watch your RAM usage. If Free memory falls to the point
where Inactive memory is being released, you may want to consider adding more
RAM to maintain maximum performance.
You can also look at the 'Page outs'
I'm running 10.7.3 on a 17" MBP which is probably getting a bit aged these
days, 2.4 GHz Intel Core Due, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
At startup, I have around 50GB of spare hard disk capacity, of a total 250GB
disk.
Over the past month o so, what happens is that over around a 2 to 4 day period,
t
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