Whats up with my page in/out??

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brsboarder

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

Feb 16, 2004

763

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• Nov 13, 2008

• #1

My computer seems to be running pretty slowly, and I don't get it. These numbers seem high. I'm barely running anything. I have 4GB ram in my 2ghz core 2 dual macbook

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RemarkabLee

macrumors 6502a

Nov 14, 2007

562

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• Nov 13, 2008

• #2

Check your Activity Monitor (CPU tab), ensuring your are displaying All Processes, then order by Real Memory - that should give you a clue as to what is going on.

 

iBlue

macrumors Core

Mar 17, 2005

19,180

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London, England

• Nov 13, 2008

• #3

It might help to see the whole window and look at what's running to eat up your RAM like that.

I don't think it's that bad. your page outs are not obscene or anything. a restart resets it and often smooths things out too. </mrs obvious>

 

Mal

macrumors 603

Jan 6, 2002

6,253

30

Orlando

• Nov 13, 2008

• #4

Something in the numbers doesn't seem to add up. It looks like it's telling you you're using 2.79GB and you have 311MB free (in which case having page outs wouldn't be unusual), but of course it's recognizing that you have 4GB total, not 3GB.

jW