[P1] filled up ibook?

[Don Hinkle]

Tom: I just ran 'top' and got this result. Is this "good" or 
"notsogood"?
thanks,
-don


Processes:  42 total, 3 running, 39 sleeping... 106 threads            
03:30:45
Load Avg:  1.35, 0.69, 0.51     CPU usage:  77.2% user, 22.8% sys, 0.0% 
idle
SharedLibs: num =    7, resident = 2.21M code, 136K data, 568K LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 3232, resident = 49.8M + 9.64M private, 88.6M shared
PhysMem:  47.5M wired, 74.6M active,  181M inactive,  303M used,  337M 
free
VM: 1.55G + 3.62M   7575(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts

   PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  
VSIZE
   504 top          6.1%  0:02.64   1    14    17   208K   336K   504K  
13.6M
   503 tcsh         0.0%  0:00.03   1    10    15   344K   600K   788K  
5.73M
   502 login        0.0%  0:01.31   1    12    33   248K   388K   576K  
13.7M
   442 lookupd      0.0%  0:00.87   2    31    47   360K   520K   892K  
14.9M
   419 DCPd         0.0%  0:02.69   2    82    55   580K  1.70M  1.83M  
18.1M
   418 pppd         0.0%  0:00.13   1    10    31   196K   836K   372K  
14.1M
   412 Terminal    83.2%  0:23.98   3    58   127  2.74M- 7.78M  8.21M  
50.8M
   393 Safari       0.0%  0:35.02   5   104   257  13.2M  13.6M  21.8M  
74.8M
   381 automount    0.0%  0:00.06   2    22    21   136K   428K   600K  
14.7M
   355 Mail         0.0%  5:34.73   4   143   219  8.25M  16.3M  14.0M  
65.0M
   351 iChatAgent   0.0%  0:00.24   2    48    22   328K  1.24M  1.30M  
15.5M
   350 UniversalA   0.0%  0:09.75   1    50    67   664K  4.34M  2.38M  
43.5M
   349 StickyBrai   0.8%  6:31.26   2   113   164  5.38M  11.6M  12.5M  
93.1M
   347 HotKey       0.8%  4:18.05   4   103    66   724K  2.58M  2.40M  
28.2M
   346 Palm Deskt   0.0%  2:26.33   1    44    85   860K  5.58M  3.33M  
42.8M
   344 Tex-Edit P   0.0%  3:01.15   1    53    97  1.37M  9.35M  7.07M  
52.0M
   343 Palm Deskt   0.0%  1:13.29   2   115   148  4.09M  27.6M  22.0M- 
81.5M
   341 Finder       0.0%  0:06.72   1    73   158  2.42M  18.5M  11.5M  
63.0M
   340 SystemUISe   2.6%  6:02.76   3   169   164  2.35M  5.44M  5.50M  
47.6M
   339 Dock         0.0%  0:02.61   2    90   127   964K  8.47M  5.89M  
45.9M


On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 03:26  AM, Tom R. no spam wrote:

> OSX will always create at least one swapfile, size 80MB.  That's
> the swapfile0 you're seeing.  With lots of RAM, you may never
> have another one created since you may never need to swap
> program memory content out to swapfile to make room in RAM for
> some other program's memory needs.  Run top (type "top" at a
> terminal window command line) and see what number you have for
> pageouts.  Pageout means program memory contents had to be
> "paged out", ie copied to swapfile, to make room in RAM for some
> other program's memory needs.  A multitasking OS at work may be
> swapping in and out constantly if there's not enough RAM to hold
> all programs' memory usage needs.  "Page" is a unit in terms of
> which memory usage is measured.  Paging in and out slows down
> a computer, which is why it's good to have lots of RAM.
> ...