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53K page outs in 6 days uptime?

hogprint

hogprint

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Oct 25, 2006
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Is 53,000 page outs in 6 days of up time a lot?

I have a 2.16 c2d 15" MBP (non-SR) with two 2gb (4gig total) sticks of memory. I can't believe that I am ever running out of RAM but is appears as though I am.

I understand when I run a VM along with OSX i get them but the last 6 days have been OSX only......

Any ideas or is this an amount to not worry about.
 
I am at 33,000 after 2 days.

I wouldn't worry - Mac OS X does not wait until you have run completely out of memory before swapping inactive pages to disk.
 
How many page ins? If you have a lot going out, but nothing really comming back, I wouldn't worry about it. If both are high, you are running out of memory somehow. I see lots of paging at 512 ram, but not much at 1gig, and I don't think my current 3gigs has any page ins...
 
How many page ins?

And more importantly: Does your machine feel sluggish and is it "beachballing" consistently?
 
i have a MBP SR 2.2
6 days 3 hours 8 min uptime
page ins: 436,680
page outs: 625,691

if 50,000 is bad... uh oh...
but everything things to be running smoothly...
 
What is bad is what Dizzee has (I have about the same).

I would highly recomend that Dizzee upgrade his ram. I wish I could upgrade mine but one of the ram slots died in my Powerbook limiting me to 1Gb max.
 
Heh!

My Mac mini C2D 2.0 has been running for six days and has 473,526 page ins / 54,926 page outs. Not sluggish though, and purports to have 1.12GB of free memory (2.0GB RAM total).
 
I have 574,961 page-ins and 195,175 page-outs after 11 days of uptime... with 1 GB RAM... but no sluggishness. is my ratio bad?
 
Those VM numbers are typical, and close to meaningless. Your computer isn't actually using nearly that much...it's just how much every currently-running process could grab in total if they all decided they needed it at once. That doesn't happen.

(For the record, my PowerBook's VM size is currently 11.8 GB.)
 
yippy said:
What is bad is what Dizzee has (I have about the same).

I would highly recomend that Dizzee upgrade his ram. I wish I could upgrade mine but one of the ram slots died in my Powerbook limiting me to 1Gb max.
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ive got 2gb right now...
everything seems good.
but once i get back to the states (am in israel for the year) i will be upgrading to 4gb for art school (advertising/graphic deisgn major)

my computer doesnt seem slow or sluggish at all...
and i always have photoshop open, usually with a fairly big file, or couple of big files open...
 
hogprint said:
Is 53,000 page outs in 6 days of up time a lot?

I have a 2.16 c2d 15" MBP (non-SR) with two 2gb (4gig total) sticks of memory. I can't believe that I am ever running out of RAM but is appears as though I am.

I understand when I run a VM along with OSX i get them but the last 6 days have been OSX only......

Any ideas or is this an amount to not worry about.
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its not the number of page-outs but the ratio between page ins and page outs that is important
 
So after 2 days, my computer says I have...

get this:

118991 page-ins and only 370 page-outs with a VM size of 16.73 GB

WTF is up with that? :confused:

MBP 2.2 SR
 
if it is the ratio that is important that what might that ratio be?

my 53k page outs are balanced by 190k page ins.

I do get the beachball from time to time.
 
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