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20031015 Wednesday October 15, 2003

512 MB is not enough for Java Development At least not on my PowerBook (1.33 GHz) - good thing another 512 is on the way!

Load Avg:  0.98, 0.98, 0.98     CPU usage:  20.9% user, 17.8% sys, 61.2% idle                       
SharedLibs: num =   81, resident = 18.4M code, 1.27M data, 2.78M LinkEdit                           
MemRegions: num = 11097, resident =  295M + 4.59M private,  116M shared                             
PhysMem:  63.3M wired,  291M active,  149M inactive,  504M used, 8.28M free

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 15 2003, 01:35:53 PM MDT 3 Comments

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Just curious to how you got these numbers?

Posted by Nicholas on October 15, 2003 at 08:50 PM MDT #

The good ol' "top" command. ;-)

Posted by Matt Raible on October 15, 2003 at 09:46 PM MDT #

actually, you are fine. your load average is fine for a nix box. darwin is gonna grab all the ram you have, and as you can see, you have a 149m doing nothing, merely allocated for use. but heck, the more ram the merrier!

Posted by Jake on October 16, 2003 at 07:01 AM MDT #

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