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Re: Do I need more RAM?

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In article <180820150042442510%nospam@nospam.invalid>, nospam
<nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <170820152033194996%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner
> <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Start up Terminal.
> > > 
> > > Type "top" and hit return.
> > > 
> > > You'll see a lot of data, but the one to monitor is "swapouts".
> > > 
> > > If swapouts isn't growing, then your machine isn't actually forced to 
> > > swap data out of memory in order to make room for other data.
> > 
> > VM: 811G vsize, 465M framework vsize, 608060(0) swapins, 947994(0)
> > swapouts.
> > 
> > Nothing is changing on that line.  I let it sit for a few minutes, and
> > nothing changed.
> 
> that's not long enough. keep checking it every so often. 
> 
> you've already managed to get it rather high, which suggests you could
> use more memory.
> 
> a better check (and easier to grok) is via activity monitor and look at
> memory pressure.

Memory pressure shows as a graph, but with no labels for either axis;
the X axis is probably time because the graph keeps moving to the left. 
So how will that help?  The only thing I can tell is that it is
constantly about 1/3 of total height of the graph space.

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Do I need more RAM? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-17 19:44 -0700
  Re: Do I need more RAM? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-17 20:27 -0700
    Re: Do I need more RAM? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-17 20:33 -0700
      Re: Do I need more RAM? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-18 00:42 -0400
        Re: Do I need more RAM? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-18 07:51 -0700
        Re: Do I need more RAM? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-18 08:33 -0700
          Re: Do I need more RAM? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-18 09:00 -0700
            Re: Do I need more RAM? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-18 09:23 -0700
          Re: Do I need more RAM? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-18 12:11 -0400
          Re: Do I need more RAM? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-08-19 13:25 +0000
  Re: Do I need more RAM? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-08-17 20:30 -0700
  Re: Do I need more RAM? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-17 20:31 -0700
  Re: Do I need more RAM? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-08-18 15:28 +0000
  Re: Do I need more RAM? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-18 13:57 -0400
    Re: Do I need more RAM? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-18 11:21 -0700
      Re: Do I need more RAM? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-18 14:40 -0400
        Re: Do I need more RAM? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-18 11:42 -0700
          Re: Do I need more RAM? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-19 16:30 +0000
            Re: Do I need more RAM? awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 14:40 -0700
              Re: Do I need more RAM? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-21 00:55 +0000
  Re: Do I need more RAM? awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 14:33 -0700

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