Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Example of "inactive" memory management Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:11:00 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <5269d702$0$1286$c3e8da3$50776f34@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1382735460 20176 166.84.1.5 (25 Oct 2013 21:11:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:11:00 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:50712 Alan Browne writes: > In 10.9 it maps to the physical memory of my iMac (24 GB) no matter how > aggressively I load up the memory (several dozen apps running and a 10 > GB ramdisk). No swapping either. > > As I write this - with a lot loaded and large RAMDisk and WinXP running > under fusion I'm at 23.5 GB and still no swap used. This, and Kevin's observations, are encouraging news. I'm interested in what vm_stat says, though. Would you mind posting the results of it? Run the terminal emulator and issue the command... Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number