I recently upgraded my MBP to 8GB of RAM from a pathetic 4 GB, and I was testing it out to see how much of a workload it could take without my computer being laggy. I fired up Firefox, my VMware Fusion virtual machine, iTunes, and here's the kicker: 2 instances of Handbrake running side by side encoding a 1080p Blu-ray rip...each.
If anyone on here knows anything about Handbrake (and I bet nearly everyone does, it's so popular) you'll know it's a pretty CPU-intensive program, and for what it does, deservedly so.
My question is, I also opened up Activity Monitor to see what was going on in there and it shows as:
The "page in's" ratio to the "page out's" is what I've been told to keep an eye on, as I was told in another thread (I've realized, come to think of it, that I should've posted this in my OTHER thread instead of starting a new one, but seeing how I've already typed this much, GIVE ME A BREAK please) but since the ratio is so one-sided towards the "page in's", is my machine still running nearly as well as it would if I was, say, NOT running two amazingly CPU-murdering programs such as Handbrake side-by-side?
The performance of my MBP so far seems to indicate so, but I figured I might as well make sure by coming on here and getting the opinions and weigh-ins of the mac community that's been at it for a lot longer than I have and knows a lot more
Regards and thanks,
Grant
If anyone on here knows anything about Handbrake (and I bet nearly everyone does, it's so popular) you'll know it's a pretty CPU-intensive program, and for what it does, deservedly so.
My question is, I also opened up Activity Monitor to see what was going on in there and it shows as:
The "page in's" ratio to the "page out's" is what I've been told to keep an eye on, as I was told in another thread (I've realized, come to think of it, that I should've posted this in my OTHER thread instead of starting a new one, but seeing how I've already typed this much, GIVE ME A BREAK please) but since the ratio is so one-sided towards the "page in's", is my machine still running nearly as well as it would if I was, say, NOT running two amazingly CPU-murdering programs such as Handbrake side-by-side?
The performance of my MBP so far seems to indicate so, but I figured I might as well make sure by coming on here and getting the opinions and weigh-ins of the mac community that's been at it for a lot longer than I have and knows a lot more
Regards and thanks,
Grant