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OS 10.6 - Virtual Memory size
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09-05-2009, 11:07 AM
Had noticed in Activity Monitor on my MBP, it's been indicating VM size of 150 GB. That's the entire sum of free space on that volume. Picked up my wife's MB this morning, it's indicating VM size at 100 GB. Meanwhile, it's an only an 80 GB drive with 50 GB of free space. Could anyone explain what I'm really looking at? I cannot be held responsible for the things that come out of my mouth. In the Windows world, most everything folks don't understand is called a virus. |
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09-05-2009, 12:26 PM
The 'real' VM amount can be calculated from the total size of the swap files found in /var/vm. This is my best understanding anyway. Of course the VM size you see has gone up significantly in SL due to the amount of VM available to 64 bit processes now. |
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