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Am I pushing my macbook pro too hard?
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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1176772" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>Plus OSX is very good with memory management. If you look at RAM statistics under activity monitor you'll see </p><p>Free -obvious free memory</p><p>Wired - used by the OS - probably won't go below this used</p><p>Active - used by open programs</p><p>Inactive - free memory - but is being remembered by the OS to help start programs that you recently used again</p><p>Used - total of wired active and inactive</p><p>The key is Inactive - if you start a program again OSX remembers you just ran that program so it will start up quicker as it has it still in memory. So shutting down programs that you aren't really using - doesn't loose you too much with respect to restarting it (especially if you closed it in error)</p><p>Here is the long explanation</p><p><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342" target="_blank">Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor</a></p><p>Also - as long as you aren't going into swap with a lot of page outs then you won't see much of a slow down either.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, with 4GB I could have a lot open. With 8GB I can have 2 virtual machines with 1G of RAM allocated to each, and still have dozens of apps open without going into swap. (Note if I know I am going to run something like Photoshop or Premiere I shut everything else down as those are memory hogs.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1176772, member: 145676"] Plus OSX is very good with memory management. If you look at RAM statistics under activity monitor you'll see Free -obvious free memory Wired - used by the OS - probably won't go below this used Active - used by open programs Inactive - free memory - but is being remembered by the OS to help start programs that you recently used again Used - total of wired active and inactive The key is Inactive - if you start a program again OSX remembers you just ran that program so it will start up quicker as it has it still in memory. So shutting down programs that you aren't really using - doesn't loose you too much with respect to restarting it (especially if you closed it in error) Here is the long explanation [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342]Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor[/url] Also - as long as you aren't going into swap with a lot of page outs then you won't see much of a slow down either. On the other hand, with 4GB I could have a lot open. With 8GB I can have 2 virtual machines with 1G of RAM allocated to each, and still have dozens of apps open without going into swap. (Note if I know I am going to run something like Photoshop or Premiere I shut everything else down as those are memory hogs.) [/QUOTE]
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