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Re: Do I need more RAM?

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In message <180820150833136766%michelle@michelle.org> 
  Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> 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.

Based on your previously posted numbers, the graph will be green most of
the time. Some of the time (if you leave AM running) it will move up to
the yellow. Probably when you launch something new or especially large.
You are using pageouts, so you would benefit from more RAM. How much?
Eh, hard to say, but not a huge amount.

-- 
'There's something not right about this,' said Rincewind. 'What's
that?' said the parrot. 'Everything.' --Eric

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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
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  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
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