39 GB Virtual Memory?

[CyberEv88]

I've got a 1.83 MBP and Leopard seems to be running a little laggy... for some reason, it shows a 39+ GB Virtual Memory, when it was usually 7-9 GB in Tiger. Is this weird?

[Peace]

Nope.That's Leopard.It will go down over time.To about 20-30Gb perhaps.

[foosh]

I don't think "that's leopard" is a useful response without first getting a little more information.

This same problem has happened to me; leopard starts going very slow and the disk is grinding a lot, writing tons of ??? to virtual memory.

Have you seen which process is responsible? Open Activity Monitor when the system starts "lagging" like you report, and see if the process "mds" (metadata server??) is responsible.

For me, that has been the problem. It has happened when opening some non-leopard apps; Adium for example.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

[CyberEv88]

^ Yep! Mine is mdworker...

[Germacintosh]

^ Yep! Mine is mdworker...

Same. What to do about it?

[cell-gfx]

Had the same problem. mdworker is related to Spotlight indexing. When you first start Leopard, depending on your HDD size(s), it will take a while (and a lot of CPU) to index everything.

Personally, I had to disable indexing on my USB2 HDD, as it kept hanging at around 50% indexed.

[xUKHCx]

From another thread

Having just upgraded to Leopard I was curious. Check it out, at one point i saw it at 105 GBs88893


As of now it is up to 73GBs

[IDANNY]

mines at 42 right now

[Whoshnot]

35 gig here...

Is that a problem? I haven't noticed any slowdown of my system though.

[Kilamite]

Mines 46GB's.

Funny, I've only got 29GB's of hard drive space available. I haven't noticed any slowdowns, or anything though.

Maybe that is the maximum possible VM available..? Not the VM that is in use?

[xUKHCx]

See this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4392907) for explanation.