On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 10:44 AM, James Morgan wrote: > I set up a new G4 last week running OSX and OS 9.2. Soon > after I set it up I got a notification of an update to OS 10.2.3 so I > ran it. I didn't notice until today that when I am booted to OS > 9.2.2 the Mac operating system is using 575 MB RAM. > > My other G4 came with OS 10.1, I didn't like 10.1 so I > took it off and am just running OS 9.2. The two computers, when > booted to OS 9.2, are using to run the Mac OS, respectively; > > New G4.......575 MB > Old G4......... 57 MB > > Please tell me the newest OSX is not going to suck up over > half a gig of RAM just for the operating system??
Running top on my box just now: (Beige G3, 768 M ram, OSX 10.2.4) Processes: 46 total, 2 running, 44 sleeping... 100 threads 11:34:48 Load Avg: 0.74, 0.27, 0.12 CPU usage: 26.3% user, 22.9% sys, 50.8% idl SharedLibs: num = 7, resident = 2.20M code, 172K data, 584K LinkEdit MemRegions: num = 2997, resident = 33.6M + 8.33M private, 54.5M shared PhysMem: 52.5M wired, 67.6M active, 118M inactive, 238M used, 530M free VM: 2.22G + 3.62M 6327(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts Total memory in use is 238 M, with Finder, Mail, Safari, Preview and Terminal running. Your new system is messed up somehow. or some program is running that's eating system ram (the only program I know of offhand that does that is Strata3D Pro, which eats System memory for it's render buffers.) If this is a *new* new G4, they're not at all optimized to run OS 9, this may be an erroneous report, or something entirely unfamiliar. If you didn't like 10.1, I'd suggest you take a look at 10.2, it was a heck of an upgrade, like going from 7.5 to 8.1 in my opinion. > -- "Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D. Bruce Johnson -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
