Re: encrypted swap file

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: encrypted swap file
Date	2015-10-09 15:29 +0000
Message-ID	<d7q4qqF15ihU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/8/15 6:00 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>> On 2015-10-08, John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Today, I haven't run much, just Mail, Thunderbird, and a couple of
>>>> Safari pages.  Memory pressure has always been green, yet Menu Meters
>>>> shows 1118 pageouts.
>>> 
>>> 1118 is in the normal range. 50,000 within a day is pretty high. Note
>>> that the counter starts at boot, so the longer your machine runs, the
>>> higher the number will go.
>>> 
>>>> It also says there's no swap file.
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure why you are so fixated on whether there is a swap file -
>>> it's inconsequential.
>> 
>> I thought a pageout was a page of data that had been moved.  I see now
>> that it's pages that have been marked for possible removal.
>> https://lists.apple.com/archives/Macos-x-server/2003/Dec/msg00899.html
>> 
>> I think I had 17MB in the swap file when I had 50,000 pageouts. Maybe El
>> Capitan is more aggressive in marking pages for possible movement to the
>> swap file.
>> 
>>> If you want to see pageouts, you can run this command in a terminal window:
>>> 
>>> # memory_pressure
>>> 
>> It didn't work for me.  I wonder what I did wrong!
> 
> Don't type the # (which I assume JR meant as the prompt). The command
> is:
> 
> memory_pressure

I use # as my bash prompt.

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encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 16:53 -0400
  Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 21:12 +0000
    Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 18:35 -0400
      Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 16:39 -0700
        Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 20:01 -0400
          Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 00:24 +0000
            Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 21:51 -0400
              Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 03:01 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 16:23 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 20:41 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 17:47 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 22:00 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 18:19 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file billy@MIX.COM - 2015-10-08 23:40 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 20:00 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-08 20:06 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 20:35 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 17:34 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-09 18:41 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 15:29 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-09 14:31 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 18:42 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 18:44 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-10 10:09 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-11 02:06 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-09 14:09 +1300
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 22:00 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 15:29 +0000
          Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 17:44 -0700
            Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 22:01 -0400
              Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 19:09 -0700
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 16:13 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-08 16:44 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 16:49 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-08 16:51 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 16:56 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-08 17:52 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-08 19:51 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 17:34 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 21:49 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 18:22 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 16:42 -0700
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 20:07 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 17:43 -0700
                Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 16:54 -0700
      Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 00:22 +0000
        Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 21:58 -0400

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