My iMac G5 20 ran out of memory tonight - wouldn't even copy a single word
in Word.
Surprising considering it has 512 Mb RAM and a 250 Gig HD. Activity monitor
showed over 5 Gigs allocated to virtual memory. I was shocked. The Real
Memory allocated was about 140Mb. I suspected the problem
I'm a little rusty but here goes.
Virtual memory used it not necessarily memory used.
A program can allocate as much virtual memory as it wants so long as
it doesn't overload the virtual memory address space available. RAM
is only used when a page in the virtual memory is paged-in. Swap
Hi all
Does OSX automatically use all hard drives attached for VM?
If it did could this mean some performance increases?
Thanks
Paul
Hi all
Does OSX automatically use all hard drives attached for VM?
No, it writes the files in /var/vm, which is usually on the boot
drive unless you've gone to some efforts to put it elsewhere.
If it did could this mean some performance increases?
Marginally, as it'd reduce the delay due
A few days ago I wrote in commenting on the chewing up of disk space as
time went on. Shay Telfer pointed me to leaking VM and he was
correct.
I have identified the culprit as PhotoShop CS which generates a series
of numbered swapfiles in private/var/vm/ and these are not subsequently
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on Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:54:55PM +0800, Severin Crisp wrote:
I have identified the culprit as PhotoShop CS which generates a series
of numbered swapfiles in private/var/vm/ and these are not subsequently
released when you quit Photoshop but only when I do a
4GB HD with 400Mb free, and a 6GB PocketDrive with 250MB free. PB G3/333
with OS9.2.1 384Mb RAM. Virtual memory on at 385Mb. Memory allocated to
app is 60Mb preferred and 45Mb minimum
400 Mb free on your hard disk - and 385 Mb used for virtual memory... that
leaves 15 Mb for photoshop
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