Leopard large VM size

[Am3822]

Hi people,

Have you noticed that under Leopard the VM size reaches extremely large sizes? Under Tiger, while using Matlab/Mathematica and other memory-hogging pieces of software I used to get to 16G at the most. Under Leopard, with nothing heavier than iCal and iPhoto I reach 30-40G in no time.

Is this kind of thing normal, or is it something that would be ironed out at a later update?

[richard.mac]

its a bug to correct it add a non default column in Activity Monitor. the actual size for me is around 7GB.

[Am3822]

Thanks, now I'm back to my usual 8-12G. Has this been reported?

[richard.mac]

i guess so it will probably be fixed in the next update. but you shouldnt really worry about your virtual memory size. virtual memory is just how much memory a process could use but it doesnt necessary use all of it. only worry about your real memory and page outs.