Should My Virtual Memory Be This High?

[Roy Hobbs]

I recently noticed my Virtual Memory is ridiculously high. Is this something I should be concerned with?

Right now I have Safari and Mail open and as you can see in the screen shot the VM Memory is over 122 GIG! Any ideas?

 

[spinnerlys]

That is perfectly normal.

More threads about this issue.

I currently have a VM size of 165GB with nine open applications.

 

[Roy Hobbs]

That is perfectly normal.

More threads about this issue.

I currently have a VM size of 165GB with nine open applications.

I read through most of those threads and the majority of them very from 2006-2008 which is why I posted.

So is VM just the amount of virtual ram that COULD be used if needed?

 

[GGJstudios]

I read through most of those threads and the majority of them very from 2006-2008 which is why I posted.

So is VM just the amount of virtual ram that COULD be used if needed?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342

 

[gr8tfly]

My post in a [very] recent thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/9322881/

VM size is not what you think; it's nothing to worry about.

 

[MacManiac76]

The confusion usually arises because many consider VM to be synonymous with swap file, which it is not. I remember when I used Windows that virtual memory and swap file were usually considered the same thing, on Mac OS X...not so much.