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[Doc Shipley]

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>Most of my load problems seem to be largely due to the really sucky 
>>Virtual Memory implementation in Mac OS X.  Someone mind telling me 
>>why on earth with 1.5GB RAM I'm using 4GB of VM just by logging in? 
>>Earlier today my VM usage was up over 10GB!  I think the "beachball" 
>>can almost always, if not always, be blamed on something swapping in 
>>or out of memory.
> 
> 
> That doesn't seem right. On my dual G4 running 10.2.8 with 2GB RAM, I get
> hardly any pageouts at all running multiple apps at once (I have a
> performance monitor running in the menu bar). Where are you getting the
> VM figure from?

   I'm betting on that Java app he mentioned.  ;)

   I've seen very very few Java anythings that didn't suck memory into 
oblivion.

   My DP G5 only has a gig-o'RAM, and I almost never page out.

   'Course, I almost never open Office X: either.  8-)


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