[X4U] Tuning Tiger

[Brett Conlon]

Interesting, I have MenuMeters running and have the Used/Free RAM readings 
showing in the menu bar. I launched DINMM and launched my email app and 
MenuMeters says I have 589MB free but DINMM says I have 419MB free.

Which one is right?

Coj



"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>

At 5:55 PM -0700 5/3/05, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>Check out this neat free (donation requested) utility:
>
>Do I Need More Memory?
>http://www.hillmanminx.net/dinmm/index.html
>
>DINMM reports when pageouts are happening, and how often, and suggests to
>you whether you need more memory.  DINMM uses a clever way of estimating
>your total memory requirement ie. the total memory that would be required
>to avoid pageouts for the typical set of applications that you use.

Sweet!  I wrote most of this in Perl yesterday, but hadn't gotten it 
quite finished.

I just tried this with a mostly loaded system and starting up the 
additional apps I normally have running.  I'll have to see about 
shutting down tonight and seeing how much it says I need.  In fact 
I'll have to try it under a couple of load types.  With just the 
basic test I tried this morning it's obvious I need more than 512MB 
(which I already knew).

                                                 Zane