Is...Is this normal?

[mr.stinki]

I was taking a look at my memory usage, and look what i found...

Can someone please explain what VM means? Does it mean Virtual Memory?

Sorry for being such a noob, but please check it out.

 

[Jiddick ExRex]

It looks perfectly normal to me.

VM means virtual memory yes.

You need only to concern yourself with getting a higher page out than in ratio really.

 

[yudilks]

I was taking a look at my memory usage, and look what i found...

Can someone please explain what VM means? Does it mean Virtual Memory?

Sorry for being such a noob, but please check it out.

Perfectly normal to me... http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107918

 

[richard.mac]

😎virtual memory can get large as its the amount of memory a process allocates but it may never use all that memory. its just a figure and its not the amount of memory that has been paged to your hard drive.

but that 40 GB figure is a bug though. to correct it add a non-default column by right clicking on the columns toolbar names. my virtual memory is 7 GB after 16 hours of uptime.

 

[Mr Black]

😎virtual memory can get large as its the amount of memory a process allocates but it may never use all that memory. its just a figure and its not the amount of memory that has been paged to your hard drive.

but that 40 GB figure is a bug though. to correct it add a non-default column by right clicking on the columns toolbar names. my virtual memory is 7 GB after 16 hours of uptime.

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Wow thanks🙂, that worked like a charm, I thought it had to be a bug b/c everytime I would open Activity Monitor it would show between 7 and 9 GB VM then jump up to 50 GB. Only took 6 months for me to find a fix 🙄

 

[rychencop]

yeah...worked great!!