Re: Mac Leopard becoming extremely slow when RAM begin to swap with harddrive

"Jeffrey Goldberg" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
alpine.OSX.1.00.0801242251290.27614@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 1/24/08 10:05
PM:

[I've removed advocacy from the follow-ups]

In <0001HW.C3BE120000027ECAF030A6D8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, J.J. O'Shea
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:54:44 -0500, Summercool wrote

So much as I like Mac, how come Leopard on a new Macbook with 1GB RAM
can become extremely slow when Firefox together with Safari start to
hog 200MB and 300MB respectively

Hmm... I have both Safari and Firefox open on my Mac, and no such problems.
Hmmm. I just launched both, opened a few large sites (CNN in one, loaded a
video, Adobe's Flash site in the other...) and neither shows any signs of
bogging. I'm using an old iMac G5, 2.1 GHz single-processor, 2.5 GB RAM.

Just for testing, I started up Firefox, Safari and Opera on a Macbook
(2GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo) with 1.5GB RAM. All are perfectly usable.
Activity Monitor is telling me that that I've got 812MB free. I'm sure
that the if I use the browsers more, I'll see some more memory usage.
Hold on, let me start Mail.app which is always a memory hog, and a few
more things ... OK, now I'm down to 640MB free.

Cheers,

I have open now Mail, Safari, NetNewsWire, Entourage, Firefox, iCal, iChat,
CyberDuck, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, iTunes, TextEdit, TextWrangler, Activity
Monitor, Pages, Numbers, Word, Preview, QuickTime Player and Address Book...
and still have over 800 MB of free memory... and over 500 of inactive.

I also have 4 GB of RAM, so that does help a bit. :)

My Wired is at just under 600 and my Active is at about 2 GB. The only time
I really push my RAM load is when I am *also* running a virtual machine or
two... that really eats RAM for lunch (for obvious reasons).



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