Virtual memory size

[arkmannj]

I might just be me, but I think my virtual memory size went up a ton with Leopard. with only Safari and Activity viewer open by VM size is 43GB !

yet I have almost 900MB of memory free.


2.4Ghz Mac Book Pro 2GB ram

 

[Eidorian]

What are your page outs and page ins?

 

[flopticalcube]

Ditto and my inactive is tiny but my free is huge. 0 page outs.😕

 

[arkmannj]

What are your page outs and page ins?

Page ins 2.79 GB
Page outs: 304.00 KB

 

[Eidorian]

Page ins 2.79 GB
Page outs: 304.00 KB

I don't think there's any reason to worry about your virtual memory allocation then.

 

[arkmannj]

I don't think there's any reason to worry about your virtual memory allocation then.

thanks. but does that mean that it is actually using 43GB on the hard disk ?

 

[Eidorian]

thanks. but does that mean that it is actually using 43GB on the hard disk ?

It's an allocation not the current real usage.

 

[arkmannj]

It's an allocation not the current real usage.

Thank you, sorry one more dumb question, would the "Swap used" be the actual amount of that allocation that is used then ?

 

[Eidorian]

Thank you, sorry one more dumb question, would "Swap used be the actual amount of that allocation that is used then ?

I don't have any experience with the changes to Activity Monitor in Leopard but that does sound right.

 

[flopticalcube]

VM is growing. Now 50+gig. something is scwey, doc.

 

[Peace]

Folks are going to find out soon the way Leopard uses virtual memory and swapping is "unique"..😉

 

[flopticalcube]

this might be key to the stuttering I am seeing in dashboard and expose.

After a couple hours of use including bringing big apps in and out.

 

[Eidorian]

Folks are going to find out soon the way Leopard uses virtual memory and swapping is "unique"..😉

This is going to be fun.

Maybe I should just read the documentation instead of waiting for Leopard. 🙄

 

[arkmannj]

Folks are going to find out soon the way Leopard uses virtual memory and swapping is "unique"..😉

I think you are saying "unique" just like my mom used to say "special" 😱 lol

 

[logotype]

Virtual memory in Leopard

I might just be me, but I think my virtual memory size went up a ton with Leopard. with only Safari and Activity viewer open by VM size is 43GB !

yet I have almost 900MB of memory free.


2.4Ghz Mac Book Pro 2GB ram

Same problem for me, Leopard allocates 32GB VM (just running Safari since reboot).
Upgraded, not a clean install though.

 

[arkmannj]

Guess I should mention I did the default upgrade install.

 

[xUKHCx]

Having just upgraded to Leopard I was curious. Check it out, at one point i saw it at 105 GBs

As i write this it is only 74 GBs

 

[Eluzion]

I did a clean install.

VM size is currently 45gb. Interesting. Wonder if this is just a bug in how it's retrieving the VM info or if they actually changed something "under the hood".

 

[flopticalcube]

It is strange as I don't have that much free disk space!

 

[Peace]

It is strange as I don't have that much free disk space!

I wouldn't worry about it.It's not really using disk space like you *cough* *ZFS* *cough* think.

This post is *cough* *read-only* *cough*

 

[xUKHCx]

It is strange as I don't have that much free disk space!

Well my VM size was 5x my free disk space and currently it is only 2.5x

See this thread where some people have explained how it works

 

[flopticalcube]

I wouldn't worry about it.It's not really using disk space like you *cough* *ZFS* *cough* think.

This post is *cough* *read-only* *cough*

Ah! *cough* 😉 nudge nudge wink wink say-no-more...

 

[flopticalcube]

Well my VM size was 5x my free disk space and currently it is only 2.5x

See this thread where some people have explained how it works

Thanks. That helped a lot. It is curious that Leopard is so much bigger than Tiger. It seems all apps have balloned in their allocations. Must be something in the system calls...