Hi guys, I have a question regarding the VM management in Mach/Darwin. Since I don't like to reboot my mac, and since I use a lot of different applications, not at the same time, I'm surprised to see that the VM storage on my drives keeps going up, and never fall down. I have a tibook 500MHz, with 512MB of RAM, so I don't think that it's normal to have so many VM used at the same time on my machine :
[localhost:~] pejvan% l /var/vm/
total 535M
-rw------T 1 root wheel 76M Jul 21 01:33 swapfile0
-rw------T 1 root wheel 76M Jul 21 02:29 swapfile1
-rw------T 1 root wheel 76M Jul 21 22:17 swapfile2
-rw------T 1 root wheel 76M Jul 22 00:22 swapfile3
-rw------T 1 root wheel 76M Jul 24 01:10 swapfile4
-rw------T 1 root wheel 76M Jul 25 19:10 swapfile5
-rw------T 1 root wheel 76M Jul 27 10:31 swapfile6
[localhost:~] pejvan% uptime
12:41PM up 6 days, 14:59, 6 users, load averages: 1.21, 1.92, 1.85
So, is there a way to tell the system to update the VM ? Or tell him to remove the unused VM swapfiles ? Plus here's the output of my top :
Processes: 55 total, 2 running, 1 stuck, 52 sleeping... 159 threads
12:44:56
Load Avg: 0.73, 1.49, 1.34 CPU usage: 8.3% user, 17.4% sys, 74.4% idle
SharedLibs: num = 126, resident = 15.3M code, 564K data, 3.75M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 8314, resident = 163M + 4.56M private, 46.9M shared
PhysMem: 59.6M wired, 283M active, 164M inactive, 506M used, 6.21M free
VM: 1.69G + 56.4M 253129(0) pageins, 597340(0) pageouts
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
5852 top 15.7% 0:00.78 1 14 17 424K 296K 680K 1.70M
328 Terminal 1.6% 21:56.01 7 131 877 3.04M 7.81M 7.14M 67.0M
333 MicrosoftK 1.6% 2:11.97 1 53 50 220K 1.12M 308K 38.7M
5583 Proteus 0.8% 27:28.55 5 139 707 58.7M 5.92M 60.2M 181M
5584 imservices 0.8% 4:18.92 4 32 506 49.6M+ 804K 49.3M+ 108M
5594 imserviced 0.8% 1:26.12 1 22 34 1.24M 768K 1.84M 4.74M
73 Window Man 0.0% 3:43:16 3 2527 3192 3.65M 26.2M 29.6M 116M
0 kernel_tas 0.0% 92:30.52 26 0 - - - 47.7M 400M
327 SystemUISe 0.0% 16:15.06 4 138 237 1.83M 4.10M 2.59M 60.9M
289 java 0.0% 16:13.80 26 205 181 2.85M 260K 2.33M 171M
133 configd 0.0% 13:52.09 4 108 173 456K 632K 768K 4.29M
2431 Dock 0.0% 3:28.85 3 106 195 1.32M 5.12M 2.58M 56.1M
330 MicrosoftM 0.0% 3:15.36 1 77 37 184K 552K 288K 26.1M
3323 Microsoft 0.0% 2:08.50 2 75 141 2.79M 6.58M 3.12M 58.3M
So what is this kernel_tasks using 400M VSize ? Thanks for your help, Pejvan _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.