Tuning OS X Virtual Memory
- by dcolish
I've noticed some really odd results form vm_stat on OSX 10.6. According to this, its barely hitting the cache. Searches of pretty much everywhere I could think of turn up little to explain why the rate is so low. I asked a few friends and they're seeing the same thing. What gives and how can I make it better?
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free:                          78609.
Pages active:                       553411.
Pages inactive:                     191116.
Pages speculative:                    6198.
Pages wired down:                   153998.
"Translation faults":            116031508.
Pages copy-on-write:               2274338.
Pages zero filled:                33360804.
Pages reactivated:                  264378.
Pageins:                           1197683.
Pageouts:                            43756.
Object cache: 20 hits of 1550639 lookups (0% hit rate)