[G4] Memory Utilization

[James Asherman]

On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, at 02:08  PM, R. Sigismonti wrote:

> I have a Mac G4/933, OS 10.2.8 with 1.25GB of resident memory and a 
> 120 GB HD.  I am using a utility to see how much memory is being used 
> by the system.  At no time does the use of resident memory exceed 260 
> MB!  I do see rather heavy usage of virtual memory when I have 
> multiple applications open.  At times, my system slows to a snails 
> pace.  I am assuming something is wrong with a setting somewhere, but 
> do not know how to shut VM off, nor do I see anything that resembles a 
> memory manager.  Can one of you Unix experts help me on this one?
>
> Sig
>
>
>

Caution  : Not a unix expert. You cannot shut off VM in OSX . Built 
into the oS.
  I also have about 1.2 gig of ram and not that much is used. But, large 
files can be displayed and you can run tons of apps at once(probably 
the whole idea).
Jim