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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 590630" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>You might actually not be maxing it out as much as you think. I am currently running five actual apps, those being Safari (with four windows; about three tabs each) Mail, iCal, Snap 'n Drag (screen shot application), and of course Activity Monitor. Activity Monitor is reporting that I have 16.21MB 'free'. I have 598MB 'inactive', and I'm pretty sure from what I've researched regarding how Mac OS X uses RAM, that's the RAM that would be taken from should any application require more. So I'm only using 1.3 or so GB out of my 2GB total, and only swapped out to 14MB.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, there are all kinds of arguments to be found on the internet regarding what all these numbers mean, but I'm pretty sure it means that I'd be cool with firing up my VM (which actually, I've only allocated it to be a 256MB of my RAM given to Windows) and still have plenty of RAM to allocate to other things before we really begin swapping. </p><p></p><p>I know people like to get a bit performance happy when it comes to specs but you're probably well below the thrashing threshold. How's the 'felt performance' of things while you're "cooking"? My usual test is to fire up Parallels, and the other apps I usually use, then play some cool music on iTunes and use Exposé and Spaces to swap around the GUI to. Usually "When Smokey Sings" by UK '80s pop band ABC then go to town switching between apps seamlessly while the music plays. Great for demos. Too bad my job isn't selling Macs, I'd probably be pretty good at it. Have to look into that. Nah, that'd make it less enjoyable. ;D </p><p></p><p>No hiccups, it's 'snappy', and indicative of what happens if you're doing some kind of fast-paced thing. I have yet to bog the thing to a halt, and I've tried real hard.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I just repeated this experiment playing the song, swapping around, running the visualizer and zipping around with Exposé and Activity Monitor reported my free RAM <em>increased</em> from the aforementioned 16MB to 86MB with Inactive not changing much with a tiny (comparatively speaking, that is) increase in swap. I really have to make a video of what I do to show what I'm talking about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 590630, member: 9385"] You might actually not be maxing it out as much as you think. I am currently running five actual apps, those being Safari (with four windows; about three tabs each) Mail, iCal, Snap 'n Drag (screen shot application), and of course Activity Monitor. Activity Monitor is reporting that I have 16.21MB 'free'. I have 598MB 'inactive', and I'm pretty sure from what I've researched regarding how Mac OS X uses RAM, that's the RAM that would be taken from should any application require more. So I'm only using 1.3 or so GB out of my 2GB total, and only swapped out to 14MB. Anyway, there are all kinds of arguments to be found on the internet regarding what all these numbers mean, but I'm pretty sure it means that I'd be cool with firing up my VM (which actually, I've only allocated it to be a 256MB of my RAM given to Windows) and still have plenty of RAM to allocate to other things before we really begin swapping. I know people like to get a bit performance happy when it comes to specs but you're probably well below the thrashing threshold. How's the 'felt performance' of things while you're "cooking"? My usual test is to fire up Parallels, and the other apps I usually use, then play some cool music on iTunes and use Exposé and Spaces to swap around the GUI to. Usually "When Smokey Sings" by UK '80s pop band ABC then go to town switching between apps seamlessly while the music plays. Great for demos. Too bad my job isn't selling Macs, I'd probably be pretty good at it. Have to look into that. Nah, that'd make it less enjoyable. ;D No hiccups, it's 'snappy', and indicative of what happens if you're doing some kind of fast-paced thing. I have yet to bog the thing to a halt, and I've tried real hard. EDIT: I just repeated this experiment playing the song, swapping around, running the visualizer and zipping around with Exposé and Activity Monitor reported my free RAM [I]increased[/I] from the aforementioned 16MB to 86MB with Inactive not changing much with a tiny (comparatively speaking, that is) increase in swap. I really have to make a video of what I do to show what I'm talking about. [/QUOTE]
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