High virtual memory usage

I'm having a similar problem. However, I noticed Adobe Updater running in the background, and when I quit that it slowly brought the memory usage backdown slightly. Still there's something hogging space though I'm not sure what....

I'm running Leopard.

Couple of suggestions:

(1) Quit and relaunch Safari. See if that brings the memory usage down.

(2) Try quitting and relaunching the Dock. Open the Terminal application and enter *killall Dock* That should kill and then automatically relaunch the Dock.

Post back here if either helps. If they do, please also mark this posting as having "Solved" your question. Thanks

I tried closing some applications and relaunching.

My M-Audio Firewire mixer (an incredibly simple application) uses 696 MB virtual memory. After closing and relaunching it went straight back to 696. Adium was over 700 MB and returned after a relaunch as well. I noticed there isn't a single application using under 500 MB.

Surely there is something different about how virtual memory is counted in this os. Moving that much information would take a long time and slow down the computer a lot. Of course, this could explain a lot, if you know what I mean.

Since upgrading to 10.5(.1) my Dual G2 2.0 has been chugging and the HD accessing forever. The finder has been crashing and I'm hearing the HD crunching data. The thing is ssslllooowww.

So I looked at my memory usage and I've got you beat. All of my open apps are using 700+ MEGS of VM each. That's like 30+ apps, including my mouse driver!

Firefox is using 965 megs of VM. My dock is using 750 MEGS. It isn't really possible since I only have 10 gigs of space left.

Ok I'm hoping I made some progress and that my computer is fixed. Here's what I did.

I went into the system preferences/accounts and deleted all startup items in my user account. I also deleted the file com.apple.finder.plist from users/myaccount/preferences

So far so good.

Hmm... The constant finder crashing issue is gone for now... BUT clicking on the finder doesn't bring up a finder window and my desktop icons disappear for a few seconds and reappear.