I'm Glad I overnighted that RAM! What is your pagein/pageout ratio supposed to be?

[akadmon]

Here is mine, about 6 hours after I fed it 2 more gigs

I can funally run Parallels all the time.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Well from close to a 1:1 ratio an extra 4GB has put the page-outs to zero

OK, I haven't run anything intensive yet but iPhoto was killing it before. Now Parallels loads without impacting the other apps at all, marvellous!

 

[yg17]

80,714 pageins (22 hours of uptime, less of actual usage time)
963 pageouts
2 gigs RAM


I put my Mac to sleep once since that reboot. Bad or good?

 

[Lycanthrope]

80,714 pageins (22 hours of uptime, less of actual usage time)

Wow 80k after 22 hours - I get 250k after 15 minutes

 

[mergatroidal]

Regularly empty Safari cache, perhaps.

With a Titanium PowerBook G4 I'll regularly empty Safari's cache to free up ram, though PageIns and Outs take there toll while on the internet, surfing ...

GraphicConverter and iWorks Pages is all I use on a regular basis. Preview is open, and only iStat Pro in the Dock, eventually I'm down to less than 10 MB of free ram with all those undues from GC and Pages, spinning wheels and lots of pageouts. So it goes.

Two hundred fifty US dollars to up to 2x512=1 gig ...?! Maybe if I win the lottery I will splurge, ... otherwise, no.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

After 6 hours uptime, 1266 page outs for 61442 page ins although I haven't been doing that much other than playing an avi and browsing the net. Before getting my extra ram I was usually somewhere between a 1:1 and a 1:2 ratio for page ins vs page outs. Going from 1GB to 3GB made an unbelievable difference.
Yesterday I had to take out my extra 2GB to test if they were giving me some kernel panics and using it in the meantime was simply unbearable! Luckily the RAM wasn't faulty after all. When I can afford it, I still want to add more though. When I'm doing lots of programming work I still get a fair few page outs.

 

[pknz]

2 days 11 hours uptime.

 

[cube]

It's useless to look at your total paging numbers. You have to use 'top' in a terminal to look how much paging you have per second while you're running your workload.

 

[iMacFan78]

Hmm, this is strange. I've been using my computer a lot for several days without restarting, and I have no page outs.

 

[FF_productions]

My G5 w/ 4 gigs of ram.

I had a MacBook Pro with just 1 gig of ram, this is one hell of an improvement.

 

[BiikeMike]

I'm still Running strong here!

Uptime 9 days 23 hours. Page ins: 741671. Page outs: 4670.

I have been out of town a lot, not much hardcore computer use


cube, neat command, it gives a lot of info that I don't really know what to do with

 

[Platform]

What about this

Uptime: 7 days...I do put it to sleep everyday..? Currently running "Dashboard (13 widgets) Mail, safari (10 taps), dvd studio pro, aperture, excel, word, itunes (playing from external hdd) addressbook, ical, quicktime, preview and adium" I know this may be a bit too much...but is this acceptable or is this the sleep page ins I am seeing ?

 

[yellow]

Well, All the Microsoft apps are RAM hogs, as is Safari, iTunes, and Quicktime. The others.. probably the same as well. And you only have 1.5GB of RAM (It amazes me that I say "only"). So, what you have there is not unexpected.

 

[Platform]

Well, All the Microsoft apps are RAM hogs, as is Safari, iTunes, and Quicktime. The others.. probably the same as well. And you only have 1.5GB of RAM (It amazes me that I say "only"). So, what you have there is not unexpected.

OK, thanks for the clarification. Knew I had a bit too much going on...

Well the merrier the next mac will be..well still long time ahead.

 

[Shadow]

It's useless to look at your total paging numbers. You have to use 'top' in a terminal to look how much paging you have per second while you're running your workload.

To do that, open Terminal and type

top

You should see something like the piccy in the attatchment. For pagein/sec or pageout/sec, look in the parenthesis's. You can see in mine that I had 311pageins/sec.

 

[teohyc]

I've just rendered an intensive scene in Maya.
Page out is still 0, as usual.

I've 4gb ram which helps a lot.

 

[himansk]

im on a mbp revA with 2gb ram, running the system for almost 12 hrs now, i have:
pageins: 228k
pageouts: 48k
I run parallels winXP with multiple visual studio 2003/2005, office, and lots of other helper dev tools all day. also i run mail.app, transmission, itunes, & adium in osx simultaneously. i have seen parallels eat up ram even though i had it setup to use only 650megs for the virtual machine. i guess most of it is from parallels accessing the virtual hard disk file and the osx keeping pieces of it as cache in the inactive memory. suspending the parallels VM will also increase the pageouts since it is similar to putting osx to sleep, instead its sleep for winXP in the vm.