Memory Maxing Out Help

[wdcglobal]

Hey I’m having a weird problem with my memory I have 1.23G of memory and within a day I’m maxed out. Whenever I restart and check activity monitor it shows only around 300mb used the next day it maxed. Has anyone ever heard of this problem?

P.S. All the processes are staying the same, they are not growing in size and new one’s are not showing up.

 

[CanadaRAM]

Maxing out memory -- what do you mean by that -- how are you measuring it?

The only thing that really counts is to check your Page Outs. If you are getting 100,000s of page outs in a short period after rebooting, then its a problem you have to address probably with more memory.

 

[howesey]

OS X handles memory different to other OSes such as Windows for example. It keeps things in memory, therefor loading from RAM rather than your HDD. 'Free' on OS X is meaningless.

Yup, you need to check page outs/ins.

 

[theheyes]

Remember your 'free' memory is both Free (Green) and Inactive (Blue).

 

[wdcglobal]

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well right now i have 52750 page ins and 0 outs is this normal. please go easy on the dumb question. i'm new at mac i've been a pc windows guy since birth i just found os x kills windows.

 

[WildCowboy]

You're doing great...zero page outs is the ideal situation. Your memory is chugging along just fine. Just keep an eye on it. A few page outs are fine, but you don't want a lot of them.

Edit: I'm currently typing this on an old iBook Dual USB with 384 MB RAM...I've got 52387 in and 13088 out. I could probably use a bit more RAM in this machine, but I'm not going to invest the money in such an old machine at this point. I checked my main computer (PowerBook with 1.5 GB RAM) last night and had ~200,000 in and 0 out.

 

[berg]

Hi there wdcglobal ..

Here is some good info on memory etc ...

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/lackofram.html