Re: When people say Leopard is problematic...

On 2008-01-31 12:28:03 -0800, dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Empson) said:

I was using the term "virtual memory" in a loose sense. I actually meant
"paging". I was regularly getting up to 2 GB or more of swap files and
heavy paging for my normal usage, compared to what was happening in
earlier Mac OS versions. All applications wanted more real memory and
there wasn't enough.

Paging is also not a good term, since paging in is how application code is read. But having significant swap files does mean that you were indeed running low on real memory. :)

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