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Authored by: pmccann on Nov 08, '02 07:34:59PM

Thanks for the clear explanation, Bill. Now if we can just corral the henny-penny's of the Mac OS X world and force them to read what you've written then the number of posts claiming that the sky is falling should diminish dramatically.

One fairly convincing way to underline the disparity between "give me abstract addresses for this much space" versus "give me this much space" is to crank up classic, and then compare the VSIZE given by "top" with the number of VM pages that have actually been made on the system. This demo usually has a calming effect on those distressed by the large VSIZE's that are visible in OS X's "top".

Cheers,
Paul



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