Ram

[mith]

i have 2GB of ram on my 24-inch intel core 2 duo imac, in activity monitor:

1475 Activity Monitor mith 1.60 2 11.35 MB 364.85 MB Intel
1463 translate mith 0.00 5 9.71 MB 117.24 MB PowerPC
1461 mdimport mith 0.00 4 3.33 MB 39.61 MB Intel
1354 Safari mith 1.00 9 91.09 MB 516.11 MB Intel
303 AppleSpell mith 0.00 1 1.96 MB 37.76 MB Intel
297 iChatAgent mith 0.00 4 4.92 MB 298.38 MB Intel
296 iChat mith 0.00 4 12.91 MB 373.71 MB Intel
238 aMSN mith 5.20 6 47.95 MB 435.30 MB Intel
237 iTunes mith 2.10 10 37.91 MB 422.70 MB Intel
235 rcd mith 0.00 2 4.07 MB 342.68 MB Intel
230 Calendar DashboardClient mith 0.00 3 7.14 MB 352.81 MB Intel
229 Dictionary DashboardClient mith 0.00 3 7.27 MB 361.81 MB Intel
228 Google DashboardClient mith 0.00 3 5.21 MB 360.54 MB Intel
227 Weather DashboardClient mith 0.00 4 10.36 MB 355.29 MB Intel
226 Unit Converter DashboardClient mith 0.00 3 7.45 MB 363.00 MB Intel
225 World Clock DashboardClient mith 0.00 3 7.14 MB 354.22 MB Intel
224 iTunes DashboardClient mith 0.00 4 7.55 MB 359.05 MB Intel
223 World Clock DashboardClient mith 0.00 3 7.02 MB 354.22 MB Intel
222 Canada411 DashboardClient mith 0.00 4 9.52 MB 362.61 MB Intel
221 Translation DashboardClient mith 0.00 3 8.93 MB 364.45 MB Intel
220 Gmail DashboardClient mith 0.00 4 10.64 MB 364.07 MB Intel
212 UniversalAccessApp mith 0.20 1 3.70 MB 347.88 MB Intel
211 GrowlTunes mith 0.00 4 10.32 MB 362.67 MB Intel
210 System Events mith 0.00 1 3.54 MB 343.49 MB Intel
209 shadowClipboard 3 mith 0.00 1 19.24 MB 377.19 MB Intel
208 iTunes Helper mith 0.00 1 1.80 MB 337.67 MB Intel
207 GrowlHelperApp mith 0.00 1 165.37 MB 516.73 MB Intel
203 Finder mith 0.00 4 15.61 MB 381.78 MB Intel
201 SystemUIServer mith 0.00 2 9.07 MB 363.70 MB Intel
200 Dock mith 12.00 3 26.14 MB 379.80 MB Intel
193 pbs mith 0.00 2 2.07 MB 54.48 MB Intel
65 loginwindow mith 0.00 4 5.74 MB 356.46 MB Intel
64 ATSServer mith 0.00 2 7.00 MB 97.64 MB
Intel

this what i see, so am i running alot of thingz??? well not reali , itunes, amsn, safari , ichat and growl i guess are the big ones so i does it say in free: 530.98 MB, and used 1.48GB...so if why hadn't ordered my imac with extra Gb upgrade i would have been in trouble today??

 

[CanadaRAM]

If you weren't running that Translate process, you'd be Rosetta-free...

 

[mith]

ok thx

then y am i running it??/ what program is it runninG! can i end process , will something happen??

 

[dpaanlka]

You shouldn't be pokin' around where you don't know what you're doing.

 

[SimonTheSoundMa]

In UNIX you have wired, active, inactive and free. You need to watch wired and active. Inactive stores data like a RAM drive of currently unused data if you want to see it that way, this is all good!

Also look out for page outs, this should be zero or small (less than 100,000).

 

[mith]

In UNIX you have wired, active, inactive and free. You need to watch wired and active. Inactive stores data like a RAM drive of currently unused data if you want to see it that way, this is all good!

Also look out for page outs, this should be zero or small (less than 100,000).

ohh ok now that makes alot for sense , thx for the explaination, i was wondering how i could be using up that much memory , but i guess wired and active is what am really using , aight peice of mind

 

[ChickenSwartz]

In UNIX you have wired, active, inactive and free. You need to watch wired and active. Inactive stores data like a RAM drive of currently unused data if you want to see it that way, this is all good!

Also look out for page outs, this should be zero or small (less than 100,000).

Are page outs cumulative over time? Do they only reset on a restart/shutdown?

 

[mith]

Are page outs cumulative over time? Do they only reset on a restart/shutdown?

ya i wanna know this to??/ i understand ram but

and what are page outs....what do those numbers mean.....