[X4U] how to view "pageouts?"

[Linda]

On 6/17/08 6:11 PM, zapcat wrote:

> anyone familiar with pageouts (with respect to RAM...not enough
> RAM...etc)
> 
> can pageout activity be useful as a diagnostic tool, to help gauge
> performance and load on a Mac, or does it basically just remind me that
> the machine doesn't have enough RAM?

I use MenuMeters to show me my pageouts. I'm having fewer than I thought I
was -- my RAM is barely all ever used, wired, or active at once. So, it's
useful in that I am looking for other reasons that my Mac bogs down, rather
than assuming it's a lack of RAM.

~Linda