On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Donald Burr wrote:

>
> I'm not sure how to interpret the values shown in the Memory tab in
> Activity Monitor.  "Free" memory is very small (only about 77 MB at
> this moment).  Alot of memory is shown as either "active" or
> "inactive" (both around 280-290 MB right now), with a somewhat smaller
> amount showing as "wired" (currently 125 MB).  "Used" (I assume this
> is the total of everything except "free" memory) is about 700 MB.  I
> am also seeing rather high values for the "VM size" (44 GB) and "page
> ins" (2.92 GB).   "page outs" is only about 317 MB or so.  It seems to
> me from these values that memory is indeed a bottleneck here, but
> maybe I am reading this all wrong?

Nope, you've nailed it, the issue is your memory. My favorite RAM  
vendor is Data MEmory Systems <http://www.datamemorysystems.com>


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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