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What should ram usage be at?

adamvk

adamvk

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Oct 29, 2008
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I'm just wondering if I should buy more ram with my current situation? or if its fine.

I have World of Warcraft, iTunes, and Archicad open.

I have: 239mb wired, 1079mb active, 509mb inactive, and only like 20mb free. Is the 509mb also free ram thats not being used, or is it kinda being used?...I just dont know, which is why I'm posting this :)

And yes it is normal for me to have several applications running at once, I'm a multitasker :)
 
The 509MB is not being used, but it is still available for whatever used it before - just in case it's needed again.
 
Check the ratio of Page outs to Page ins. If Page outs is high (close to or more than Page ins), you could do with more RAM.
 
Sorta going along with this thread. How much Virtual Memory should you really be using? It seems like all my programs are taking about a gig or more of VM. And it says that my VM size is 35.18 GBs. Is that to much?
 
Atomicfission92 said:
Sorta going along with this thread. How much Virtual Memory should you really be using? It seems like all my programs are taking about a gig or more of VM. And it says that my VM size is 35.18 GBs. Is that to much?
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Mac OS X manages your memory automatically. The only thing to keep an eye on is if the combination of Free and Inactive is very low, then you might need more memory.
 
Atomicfission92 said:
Sorta going along with this thread. How much Virtual Memory should you really be using? It seems like all my programs are taking about a gig or more of VM. And it says that my VM size is 35.18 GBs. Is that to much?
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Yeah, I'm at 36GB, but my in/out ratio is ok? in = 295MB vs out = 328KB
 
ggjstudios said:
Mac OS X manages your memory automatically. The only thing to keep an eye on is if the combination of Free and Inactive is very low, then you might need more memory.
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So your basically saying that I shouldn't really even need to worry about filling up my ram because the system will just fix it as needed. I like that. :)

I have 4 GB in my MBP so I should be pretty good
 
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