> >And OS X seems to like going to swap. It's already started sticking stuff
> >there on a fresh boot, when I've got 300+M RAM free.

> I don't see swaps when I have free RAM until I start Safari. 
> Apparently all the web cache files written to disk by Safari are 
> reported as OS pageouts in 'top'.  Those same files in NS and IE 
> aren't reported this way but they are in Safari.

It's probably mmapping them and so your program's monitoring dirty page
writes.

But I'm not going by swap activity, I'm going by the swapfiles and
what's listed as being used in them in MenuMeters.


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