[X4U] Virtual Memory Size after Tiger Upgrade

[Kirk McElhearn]

On May 3, 2005, at 7:32 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Has anyone else noticed their Virtual memory usage sky-rocket after  
> switching to Tiger?  I didn't realize it until today, but I'm  
> sitting at 12GB Virtual, and 1.39 Physical used right now.  With  
> what I've been running, I really shouldn't be much more than about  
> 8GB VM.
>
> Is this due to my upgrading to Tiger, or because I upgraded my  
> system disk from the stock 160GB drive to a 300GB drive?  I am  
> noticing that just the kernel is now taking 1.23GB VM!

Ignore those figures - they are theoretical maximum VM figures. If  
you have, however, 12 GB in swap files, then that's a problem...


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