That's pretty big and if you run out of real RAM OSX will try to fake it
by swapping pages of memory out to disk. Once that happens your machine
will turn to sludge. On OSX 10.9 or later you can go to terminal and type
sysctl -a vm | grep vm.mem
which will give you the "memory pressure". I'm running 8GB RAM with the
usual mail, chat, web apps open so when I do that I get 0 pressure. You
can also check the minimum target for free pages of memory:
sysctl -a vm | grep free_target
and how many free pages you have
sysctl -a vm | grep free_count
My target was 4000 and actual was 5533 so I'm good. Once the actual
drops below the target OSX will start asking apps to free up any memory
they can and beyond a certain threshold will start swapping to disk.
There's some details here:
http://newosxbook.com/articles/MemoryPressure.html
CB
On 7/21/15 12:32 PM, Antonio Guimaraes wrote:
Hi all,
I am working with a fairly large numbers file containing 6300 columns.
Voiceover lags behind by about two seconds each time I switch from cell to
cell.
Is this normal, can it be resolved in someway?
I only have 4 GB of RAM.
As ever,
Antonio
--
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"MacVisionaries" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
