Need help understanding "memory swap"..

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farmcock


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I have one of those iStat nano's on my dashboard. It says I have 3gb of memory in swap. I wonder what could be causing this? I'm not crunching a movie or anything requiring alot of memory - however, I do have Windows (VM Fusion) on my iMac and also a couple of games (Mac version) such as 'Super Collapse' that my girlfriend plays all the time. Could the games cause that?

I have 1.5gb of memory so I guess i just don't understand the swap.

Can anyone explain? Thanks.
 
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Your Mac's Specs
2G Mac Pro, 6Gb RAM, Lotsa HD space, 24" Samsung LCD
1.5Gb physical memory with 3Gb swapped? Time to buy more memory? ;D
 

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