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Broke my computer!?!?
Authored by: babbage on May 10, '01 03:28:56PM
A ha! Meant to check `top` before posting that, but forgot. Check this out:

3:22:21pm :chris% top -u

Processes: 50 total, 6 running, 44 sleeping... 103 threads 15:22:30
Load Avg: 3.50, 3.63, 3.63 CPU usage: 50.5% user, 49.5% sys, 0.0% idle
SharedLibs: num = 99, resident = 14.0M code, 964K data, 3.11M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 3501, resident = 27.4M + 3.30M private, 30.6M shared
PhysMem: 23.1M wired, 66.2M active, 51.4M inactive, 141M used, 19.3M free
VM: 609M + 43.8M 28507(0) pageins, 5395(0) pageouts

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
424 setiathome 21.5% 60:52.09 1 23 251 1.24M 13.1M 14.0M 17.1M
378 loginwindo 20.1% 44:55.46 3 105 74 812K 1.53M 1.58M 22.5M
338 tcsh 20.1% 42:51.78 1 17 16 400K 504K 688K 5.63M
434 setiathome 19.6% 42:10.13 1 24 14 92K 320K 388K 1.64M
579 top 11.6% 0:01.07 1 19 14 212K 240K 436K 1.31M
391 CPU Monito 4.6% 7:22.79 1 65 50 956K 1.87M 1.85M 31.4M
377 Window Man 1.4% 5:25.97 2 179 145 5.68M 8.68M 10.5M 22.9M
0 kernel_tas 0.4% 4:02.47 21 0 - - - 15.2M 122M
408 iTunes 0.0% 1:48.99 6 133 142 488K 2.83M 1.11M 45.8M
409 System Pre 0.0% 1:22.12 6 175 585 5.14M 7.08M 6.55M 60.9M
384 Finder 0.0% 0:30.58 3 88 312 7.04M 8.05M 7.89M 53.7M
389 Terminal 0.0% 0:19.01 3 73 59 1.11M 2.32M 2.78M 32.8M
52 ATSServer 0.0% 0:09.32 1 40 49 516K 1.74M 1.41M 21.2M
385 Dock 0.0% 0:09.24 3 125 105 2.30M 2.49M 3.24M 34.5M
2 mach_init 0.0% 0:05.45 1 137 14 44K 216K 72K 1.25M
383 pbs 0.0% 0:05.44 3 113 69 752K 524K 1.12M 15.9M
56 update 0.0% 0:04.58 1 9 13 16K 200K 36K 1.22M
168 lookupd 0.0% 0:03.27 2 28 21 212K 348K 400K 2.36M
177 ntpd 0.0% 0:03.21 1 10 16 60K 260K 144K 1.49M
108 configd 0.0% 0:02.11 4 65 91 232K 332K 412K 3.20M
38 kextd 0.0% 0:01.84 2 17 72 0K 196K 0K 2.77M
87 autodiskmo 0.0% 0:01.24 2 42 16 60K 248K 124K 1.95M
161 netinfod 0.0% 0:01.30 1 16 15 172K 284K 292K 1.59M
222 httpd 0.0% 0:01.89 1 10 231 16K 216K 60K 3.36M
387 DocklingSe 0.0% 0:01.07 1 56 31 272K 1.37M 544K 14.4M
411 DisplaySer 0.0% 0:01.32 2 52 41 436K 712K 364K 8.48M
428 writeconfi 0.0% 0:01.65 2 30 19 256K 196K 464K 1.89M
430 SpeechFeed 0.0% 0:01.82 2 66 67 1.16M 1.70M 1.81M 31.9M
59 dynamic_pa 0.0% 0:00.05 1 10 15 20K 204K 36K 1.24M
1 init 0.0% 0:00.13 1 20 12 28K 208K 56K 1.23M
117 ipconfigd 0.0% 0:00.07 2 19 17 0K 196K 0K 1.42M
153 syslogd 0.0% 0:00.36 1 9 13 44K 208K 76K 1.23M
157 portmap 0.0% 0:00.05 1 9 13 28K 208K 48K 1.22M

3:22:33pm :chris%

Check out that sixth line, in bold: 609mb of virtual memory, apparently including 160 of
actual memory and ...about 450 on disc. That might explains a lot of this problem.

So the next question is, was the increase in ram to blame (an additional 128 mb last week),
or did this update mangle the way virtual memory is handled, or is it some third issue?

Help! Please!

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