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Lots of RAM

forester54

forester54

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Oct 5, 2009
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Do you guys think there is a big difference I would notice by adding more RAM to my machine.

I use Photoshop, FCP, VMware (windows 7 and XP) and all the basic apps (itunes firefox etc)

Havent done much gaming but want to now that I have my MP

would I notice a difference by adding 2 or 4 more GB in my 2 empty slots?
 
the most ive gotten up to is 5 or 5.5GB but if I play games in windows through VMware im wondering if that is going to suck RAM like crazy
 
MacMini2009 said:
If you have any page outs in Activity Monitor, then it is time for a RAM upgrade.
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Yeah this is the best way to tell. The more page outs you get the bigger the speed boost you will get.

I know I plan on buying another 4 gb soon. Am I ever glad I got a Mac Pro. I was told by everyone here not too because I don't use pro apps. I am at 7gb of ram and I still run out.
 
as noted, look for page outs.

Virtual machines lock up a lot of ram.

I routinely was getting large amounts of page outs until I hit 12GB ram personally, but I leave parallels running almost constantly and have photoshop and lightroom and multiple other programs running almost constantly as well.
 
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that's it's ok and expected to have some Page outs, but they should be less than 10% of your number of page ins.

I've been up for 16d and have:

Page Ins: 5.3mil
Page Outs: 31,582

Nothing to worry, right?
 
nightfly13 said:
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that's it's ok and expected to have some Page outs, but they should be less than 10% of your number of page ins.

I've been up for 16d and have:

Page Ins: 5.3mil
Page Outs: 31,582

Nothing to worry, right?
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Its time for a RAM upgrade.
 
I have 16GB of RAM and I still get page outs.

I remember someone else on MR that said he had 32GB of RAM and still gets page outs. OSX LOVES RAM!!
 
nightfly13 said:
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that's it's ok and expected to have some Page outs, but they should be less than 10% of your number of page ins.

I've been up for 16d and have:

Page Ins: 5.3mil
Page Outs: 31,582

Nothing to worry, right?
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jjahshik32 said:
I have 16GB of RAM and I still get page outs.

I remember someone else on MR that said he had 32GB of RAM and still gets page outs. OSX LOVES RAM!!
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calderone said:
Says the guy with 1GB :rolleyes:

I have 12GB of RAM, have been up for 32 days and have:

Page outs: 696.00 KB

I bet I need a RAM upgrade too...
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No, those are about right. I mean one can never have too much RAM of course but for 8 to 12 GB of ram that's very expected and I doubt seriously having 16GB would reduce the in/out ratio much - if at all.

I've been up for about 7 days now. I have 12GB RAM and my ratio is very similar:
 

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vm size: 139.85 gb (huh?)
page ins: 2.86 gb
page outs: 776.3 mb
swap used 1.98 gb

page ins: 749,992
page out: 198,732

lately (since i installed snow leopard) i never see less than 120 mb free and around 1.4 gb active.
leopard likes ram, snow leopard loves ram and has an addiction.
ya i have only 2gb ddr2, and it is only a mbp not a beast of a machine you guys are running.
 
Well, I think it has more to do with "up-time" and of course usage. Page-outs and page-ins accumulate over time. If it's 64,000 page-outs in an uptime of 2 or 3 weeks that's phenomenal. If that's 24 hours then that's about right - again also depending on usage.
 
Tesselator said:
Well, I think it has more to do with "up-time" and of course usage. Page-outs and page-ins accumulate over time. If it's 64,000 page-outs in an uptime of 2 or 3 weeks that's phenomenal. If that's 24 hours then that's about right - again also depending on usage.
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Its more the ration of page in to page outs. That way to accounts for uptime.
 
I have 9GB of ram in my G5 and 2.9million page-outs and 4.3million page-ins after 6 days up time.
 

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So can we say the following is an axiom:

Assuming several days uptime and normal use, Page Outs should be no more than 10% of the number of Page Ins.

Sound like a good philosophy?

BTW I presently have 6mil Page Ins and 51,478 Page Outs and I'm at 18d uptime.
 
300D said:
I have 9GB of ram in my G5 and 2.9million page-outs and 4.3million page-ins after 6 days up time.
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Wow dude - is adding more memory a viable option? That's the worst ratio I've seen - and it's not like you've been stingy on RAM! Is G5 architecture less efficient or something? That's crazy.
 
so to go back to the ratio of page outs to in, i have about a forth of my page outs to my page ins. is this high or...
 
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