Activity Monitor Question

[JK.online]

Hi guys,

I have a question regarding the figures given in the activity monitor.

I have a Macbook 2.0GHz with 1GB Ram.

I'm running Virtue Desktops, Microsoft Word (via Rosetta), Quicksilver and Firefox and it's giving me memory information like this:

Wired: 181.01 MB
Active: 356.31 MB
Inactive: 468.07 MB
Used: 997.39 MB

Free:16.75 MB
VM Size: 10.27 GB
Page Ins/Outs: 3667/120.

I'm just wondering if these figures are correct for what I'm doing?

Cheers,

Jake.

 

[WildCowboy]

It looks pretty normal to me. Remember that inactive RAM is the same as free RAM for all intents and purposes. See this document for a bit more detail on how to read your memory usage.

 

[Silver-Fox]

does anyone know why the VM on mac's is so high, 10 gig mine was reading 8 gig today and i was doing piratically nothing

 

[WildCowboy]

The virtual memory size is essentially meaningless. It's the maximum amount of virtual memory that could be used by the currently-running applications. The amount you're actually using is much, much, much less than that.

 

[Silver-Fox]

cool thanks for that, yeah i just wondered why it was so high on the activity monitor.

 

[gollum]

My numbers were always about the same in my MacBook 2 ghz before I upgraded my RAM to 2 gb's ($145 from Newegg).
My computer is so much faster now I couldn't recommend 2 gb's higher if you can possibly afford it !!!

 

[chrisdazzo]

this is kind of off-topic, but has to do with activity monitor... is there any way to re-install activity monitor once it's been deleted from the system? i've tried just putting it on a flash drive and then dragging it back into the utilities folder, then opening it, but to no avail. it just quits.