On 12 4 2005 at 6:46 pm -0400, Steve Abrahamson wrote: >7.3 gigs free. > >But there was once a day when it was almost filled up, and I believe that >the remnants of that day are swiss cheese all over the face of the drive.
Hmmmmmmm. Maybe so. A full backup, reformat and restore would be the drastic way to resolve that... :) >I've got about 15% free memory right now. I'm sure that fluctuates >through the day. I was more interested in the number of cache hits on the VM (6th line in the "top" listing); does Activity Monitor show that? (I'm too lazy to check) >So my question on that is this: is that purely a current-state issue, or >a historical issue as well? That is, if I add RAM so that, say, 45% of my >memory is free (low VM usage there), but I was *once* memory constrained, >and I have lots o' room free on my disk but I *once* had a very full >disk, are there remaining "scars" (if you will) from those states? No there shouldn't be. When you reboot, the VM backing files are deleted and recreated as need be, AFAIK. FWIW though, on a well-designed Unix (like Mac OS X and Linux), you can usually expect free RAM to be at a minimum under any circumstances since "free memory is wasted memory". In any case, back to the issue at hand... are there specific actions in PM which exhibit the slow behaviour (compred with others that don't)? Have you noticed abnormal slowness under any other circumstances (other apps) on your machine? -b -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
