Barbara: This could be another problem, besides the RAM memory problem: you may need to run a utility to clean up and out the logs, caches, etc. by the cron scripts (normally run by OS X during the night). I use Yasu by Jim Mitchell but there is MacJanitor, Cache Cleaner, and a few others to do the same thing.
For OS 1o.4.x, Yasu 2.0.5. For OS 10.3.x, 1.0.3. This is a donation ware ($3.50 for Yasu 2.0.5). You quit all applications, launch Yasu, check all boxes, click OK, type in your password, and go have a cup of coffee. First time it might take 20- 30 minutes and then it restarts. For staff with Entourage problems in our division, after trying various things (Repair Disk Permissions, Single User FSCK, etc.), running Yasu under the user's logon seems to do the best job. I have not tried MacJanitor or Cache Cleaner, though I have downloaded them to try on a test OS X partition. I hope it helps, along with your adding 1GB of RAM. Steve ================================== Steve D. Culver Mac / Win Desktop & Network Tech Support University Relations, UC Davis Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================== -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barbara Hodge Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 12:26 PM To: Entourage:mac Talk Subject: Re: Not enough memory messages Wonderfully useful and informative, thanks. I am going to add 1GB RAM as these discussions remind me that overall I have found speed unsatisfactory in different apps and an improvement would be great. One slightly linked question if I may: you mention four-five days. I have been told that the OSX is built to leave running for days - but still tend to switch off at night. Am I unnecessarily doing so? Barbara > From: Larry Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:12:27 -0600 (CST) > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Not enough memory messages > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Barbara Hodge wrote: > >> I have in System memory: >> >> Free 9 MB (scarily low???) > > No, quite normal actually. As I mentioned earlier, OS X is a virtual > memory operating system. I don't want to go into a highly technical > discussion of what a virtual memory system is except to say that it is > normal to have very little free memory. The important question to > whether you have enough physical memory is how much page faulting is > going on and that's partually answered by: > >> Page ins/outs 68262/13569 > > But without knowing how long the system has been up, those numbers are > meaningless. Comparing to my system, if you've been up for a few days, > I'd call those numbers low. I hit over one million "page ins" in five > days last week while temporarily running my G4 iMac with only 786 MB > (awaiting warranty replacement of a 1GB memory card). However, during > that period, I'd call performance unsatisfactory. > >> I have 7 apps open: Quark, e'rage, safari, dreamweaver, adobe >> photoshop, adobe acrobat, excel. > > Having them open is not necessarily going to cause you memory > performance issues if six of them are idle. However, many programs are > doing stuff in the background (animatations in web pages, Entourage > checking for new mail, etc.). Memory performance issues develop when > the active processes collectively need more memory than is available > and the operating system has to keep switching that memory around > between those processes. The memory used by inactive processes gets > "swapped out" to disk where it's no longer competing for the physical > memory. The reason I said above that low free memory is normal is > because the operating system does not free up more memory by swapping > than is actually needed. Only by quitting a program does large chunks of memory get freed. > > > -- Larry Stone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
