Anyone know if there's a way (via the console/Terminal) to track swap file
size, over time?
(I think data will help my cause)
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On Dec 4, 2013, at 12:41 PM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone know if there's a way (via the console/Terminal) to track swap file
size, over time?
You can ls /private/var/vm of course…but I don’t think the actual size of the
swap files in there goes down unless you reboot in
Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net writes:
I thought I understood this stuff…but Activity Monitor shows 8.11 GB
of VM currently while I only have a 67MB and a 1GB actual swap file.
Where does the over almost 7GB of VM reside?
In imaginary land... Most of this probably is memory
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net wrote:
[…] but I don’t think the actual size of the swap files in there goes down
unless you reboot in which case they get deleted.
I've definitely seen the number of swap files decrease. Rarely, but
I've seen it a handful of
There's a lot to be said for that.
neil
The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the
relationship.
On Dec 4, 2013, at 13:19, Jochem Huhmann j...@gmx.net wrote:
stuff all
the memory sticks into your machine that it can take
Agreed, except I'm at 4 GB (which I believe was the max for a MacBook Air 4,2)
And it seems like most people gasp when I tell them my swap file size(s).
So maybe (?) my particular case has something especially wrong with it...
(like, say, a Sandforce SSD)
On Dec 4, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Jochem
10.7.5 definitely will reduce swapfile size when programs free up memory.
Today, for example, I was at 8 GB of swap file, and now I'm down to 4 GB.
Earlier versions would not; at least as recently as 10.4, and I think 10.5 on
the PPC, swapfile space would only be reclaimed if everything after
