Re: Why is OS X swapping with inactive memory available?
Re: Why is OS X swapping with inactive memory available?
- Subject: Re: Why is OS X swapping with inactive memory available?
- From: Michael Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:34:20 -0700
On May 28, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Thomas Backman wrote:
Nobody?
Thomas,
As Jim notes, I and others have posted on this and related lists, and
otherwhere (the Ars Technica forums, for example) a variety of
explanations of the interactions between applications and the Darwin
VM, as well as extensive debugging tips and techniques.
After a while, it gets boring repeating the same stuff over and over
again, and when the choice becomes one of "write the same thing one
more time" or "get sarcastic with a 'doctor it hurts' comment", the
moderate tendency is to simply say nothing.
Since that hasn't prompted you to better yourself, and rather instead
to kick the mailing list and whine about how we aren't dispensing the
information you stuck a quarter in us for, don't be too upset if the
answers you get are worth a quarter and not much more.
The problem is complicated; you are using a tool you don't understand,
and I dare say you don't want to understand it - you just want it to
do what you think it should do without bothering you.
If you were to treat a tool with a sharp edge like this, the results
would be messy, so don't be too put out that you're having a hard time.
In terms that you might understand, then: you are trying to do too
much with too little. You might need a bigger machine, or you might
need to try to do less with the machine you have. If you were to
spend some time learning, and some time measuring, you might be able
to adjust what you are doing to fit, or to determine how much more
machine you require in order to get the job done.
Sadly, none of us are in a position to look inside your machine and do
this for you, but even the most casual investigation on your part
(yes, it's work, I know) will lead you to a variety of approaches that
you might apply.
= Mike
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