Is it me, or is this NOT normal?

[hishat]

hey guys, can someone take a look at these stats! dont believe safari takes up so much VM and RAM!

is this normal? along with the other programs?

cheers lads

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Seems reasonable for Leopard. I had the same (insane) increase in VM size after upgrading...

 

[yetanotherdave]

They must have really changed how leopard manages memory, I have 2gig RAM, am running azerus, safari and mail, and NOTHING else, and have not much free RAM left (about 500mb) and a VM size of about 40gigs. I only have 18gig free on disk!
But everything runs so smoothly I just try to not let it bother me. It's just the way this OS works, every things fast and smooth, if I load another app it loads fast and doesn't seem to mind about the apparent lack of memory.

 

[Cybergypsy]

on my stock macboock have 38 unused getting more tomorrow

 

[jbstew32]

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https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/367362/