[JamesRedwood]

Hi All,

Here is my top results - A full 2 GB is being used and I dont understand where or how

Any ideas?

Processes: 64 total, 4 running, 1 stuck, 59 sleeping... 357 threads 21:32:29
Load Avg: 0.95, 0.84, 0.75 CPU usage: 24.20% user, 17.81% sys, 57.99% idle
SharedLibs: num = 3, resident = 52M code, 3668K data, 3732K linkedit.
MemRegions: num = 10807, resident = 409M + 23M private, 630M shared.
PhysMem: 636M wired, 870M active, 479M inactive, 1985M used, 58M free.
VM: 9306M + 372M 314313(0) pageins, 2583(0) pageouts

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
1304 top 7.5% 0:01.55 1 18 29 1116K 200K 1712K 18M
1286 tcsh 0.0% 0:00.11 1 15 24 1048K 188K 1532K 18M
1285 login 0.0% 0:00.02 1 17 55 284K 228K 1072K 19M
1284 Terminal 1.3% 0:04.23 3 102 156 2472K 13M 9540K 362M
1276 JavaApplic 9.8% 0:55.63 86 1781 700 69M 12M 81M 711M
1218 hpdot4d 0.8% 0:49.82 2 38 30 256K 224K 636K 19M
1210 launchd 0.0% 0:00.56 3 26 24 112K 292K 456K 18M
1183 mdworker 0.0% 0:01.73 4 73 76 2296K 8044K 7396K 37M
1149 WinAppHelp 0.0% 0:00.16 1 51 36 916K 4856K 2432K 281M
809 Mail 0.1% 1:54.31 12 277 355 12M 23M 40M 401M
783 vfstool 0.0% 0:00.05 2 16 30 444K 184K 1556K 23M
776 Parallels 7.8% 61:58.41 21 217 535 36M 116M 429M 1041M
634 Safari 44.5% 64:44.96 17 375 2673 154M+ 31M- 234M 678M
330 AppleSpell 0.0% 0:04.18 1 59 31 1132K 5536K 6196K 34M
220 usbmuxd 0.0% 0:02.89 2 22 34 552K 224K 1164K 19M
219 LCCDaemon 0.0% 0:11.08 3 2620 144 4300K 7176K 8096K 345M
218 iTunesHelp 0.0% 0:00.41 2 55 51 576K 2528K 2632K 291M
216 HPEventHan 0.0% 0:02.51 4 91 135 5780K 2852K 11M 365M
215 Print Daem 0.0% 0:00.22 2 29 82 1720K 2132K 5852K 78M
214 HP IO Clas 0.0% 2:23.33 2 68 108 5544K 2484K 11M 341M
213 HP IO Clas 0.0% 2:22.57 2 68 110 5448K 2852K 10M 341M
206 Finder 0.0% 0:18.55 7 187 287 7144K 18M 18M 379M
205 SystemUISe 0.2% 0:44.88 8 275 394 6892K 12M 14M 370M
204 pboard 0.0% 0:00.00 1 15 23 116K 184K 532K 19M
202 ATSServer 0.0% 0:09.22 2 94 132 1508K 6404K 6456K 69M
201 Dock 0.4% 2:10.74 3 139 328 4348K 28M+ 13M 374M
198 UserEventA 0.0% 0:01.45 2 134 83 1360K 4424K 2828K 21M
197 Spotlight 0.0% 0:03.11 2 87 91 1096K 6764K 4092K 309M
193 AirPort Ba 0.0% 0:03.05 1 66 105 1000K 7004K 3612K 339M
189 launchd 0.0% 0:10.57 3 191 24 196K 292K 528K 18M
179 coreaudiod 0.0% 0:00.50 2 127 56 1320K 980K 2940K 20M
177 pvsnatd 0.1% 1:57.55 3 26 28 164K 184K 1232K 21M
153 mysqld 0.0% 0:24.13 9 40 53 8032K 188K 11M 45M
127 sh 0.0% 0:00.01 1 14 19 128K 184K 660K 18M
122 hpusbmond 0.0% 0:00.06 1 15 27 300K 224K 720K 19M
117 llipd 0.0% 0:21.10 1 8 18 80K 184K 220K 18M
96 WindowServ 4.1% 17:53.17 5 334 1010 12M 135M+ 142M 524M
69 coreservic 0.0% 0:03.93 4 180 146 1600K 10M 9340K 31M
62 socketfilt 0.0% 0:01.50 3 35 26 592K 216K 1568K 18M
61 autofsd 0.0% 0:00.03 1 21 19 148K 184K 648K 18M
60 blued 0.0% 0:01.95 1 59 36 3248K 2196K 4776K 30M
56 diskarbitr 0.0% 0:00.71 1 115 20 364K 188K 1000K 18M

[TETENAL]

Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor

[JamesRedwood]

Thanks - This Is Awesome - Can I Just Ask - Is There An Article About The Fan Coming On?

My Fan Always Is On When I Watch You Tube

[moep]

Originally Posted by JamesRedwood 

Thanks - This Is Awesome - Can I Just Ask - Is There An Article About The Fan Coming On?

My Fan Always Is On When I Watch You Tube

That's the Adobe Flash plugin.
Nothing you can do about that really, except use the "Better Battery Life" power management setting which seems to throttle the CPU to a certain degree.

[ghporter]

Off topic but curious... Why are you capitalizing every word? It's distracting.

[FireWire]

This link explains very well the results of the "top" command. In short, you should pay attention to the two last columns, RSIZE and VSIZE, the Real size of memory used, and the Virtual, but the RSIZE is more important. The PID is the process' identification number, and COMMAND the process' name. So by reading the RSIZE number on the right, you can see which program (or process) is consuming the most memory.

You should also watch for the number of pageouts. The fewer the better (ideally 0). If you notice your system is paging out a lot, it would be a good idea to install more RAM, as the system has to use the hard disk to store information that should remain in RAM, making things slower.

[Big Mac]

0 Pageouts are unrealistic. Pageins should, however, outnumber pageouts if a system has sufficient RAM. And Activity Monitor is a better way to look at the info than top.

[seanc]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Off topic but curious... Why are you capitalizing every word? It's distracting.

Could be the forum software un-doing CAPS LOCK.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by seanc 

Could be the forum software un-doing CAPS LOCK.

No, that changes thread title text to lowercase throughout, but doesn't affect body text. I TYPED THIS IN ALL UPPERCASE TO MAKE SURE I KNEW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. It's just odd...

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by seanc 

Could be the forum software un-doing CAPS LOCK.

I DID NOT KNOW THERE WAS SUCH A THING ?

WHAT DOES IT DO ?

-T

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

No, that changes thread title text to lowercase throughout, but doesn't affect body text. I TYPED THIS IN ALL UPPERCASE TO MAKE SURE I KNEW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. It's just odd...

I think there used to be an anti-caps filter that would do that if the whole message was in caps, but it doesn't seem to happen anymore. Maybe it was always just the titles, though. At any rate, it looks like he just titlecased his post.

[Tomchu]

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

0 Pageouts are unrealistic.

Not if you have more RAM than you actually need. I'll often have 0 pageouts for a few days after a reboot -- until I pop into work and need to boot up a few VMs.