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What's Going on with my System? (pageouts)
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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So I've got a 1 gig TiBook, with 2 512 sticks in it, and it's been running painfully slow for awhile. I thought it might be the RAM, so I ran the Apple Hardware Test (nothing), and memtest (nothing).
I have MenuMeters installed, and checked out my numbers...
With an uptime of only 2 days, 2 hours...
Memory Usage:
683.0MB used, 341.0MB free, 1,024MB total
Memory Pages:
584MB active, 98.5MB wired
323.7MB inactive, 17.4MB free
VM Statistics:
231,846 pageins, 214,193 pageouts
313,458 cache lookups, 34,916 cache hits (11.1%)
25,724,927 page faults, 169,868 copy-on-writes
Swap Files:
5 swap files present in /private/var/vm
5 swap files at peak usage
1.024MB total swap space (932.8MB used)
So, from the old posts I've read, 214,193 pageouts is a ton. But I seem to have a bunch of memory free (323.7MB inactive).
Anyone able to see/guess at what's wrong?
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I read somewhere that for optimal virtual memory performance, you should have at least 10% of the hard drive space open. Do you have this?
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Good thought, but yes, I have about 25 gigs free on a 60 gig hard drive... and I zeroed the hard drive and reinstalled Tiger from the ground up about three months ago.
Hmm...
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Moderator  Join Date: Oct 2001
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Well, what programs are running and using the most CPU in the Activity Monitor?
Steve
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Only Word, Entourage and Firefox 2.0 are open, each using less than 10% of CPU...
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Open Activity Monitor (Utilities folder), show All Processes. Select the entire list, copy it, and post it here.
Chris
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The pages are from a time in the last 2 days when you didn't have 300MB RAM free and it had to start banging away at swap. Were you running a lot more applications recently, or one very memory hungry app?
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Interesting. I ran Onyx (for the first time in probably a year), had it clear a bunch of cache stuff, and now (after a restart), I have a 17-1 ratio of pageins/outs, even with Photoshop CS and iPhoto open, and a much faster system. Maybe that did it (knock on wood). Thanks for everyone's help...
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Prime suspect for paging out: iPhoto. I recently imported my collection (as aliases) from iView Media Pro, and started sorting them into film rolls (NB: having quit and restarted iPhoto inbetween). After a few minutes, iPhoto 6 was using somewhere around 700MB live RAM.
Since then, I've not been touching iPhoto anymore, as I don't see what if anything it does so much better than iView -- which does it using 25 MB RAM, and faster.
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MBP 15" 2.33GHz C2D 3GB 2*23" ACD
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