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Question: (2009 15" MBP, 8GB 1333MHz RAM, 7200rpm HDD, Mountain Lion)

I have zillions of apps open.

    1GB wired, 3.25GB active, 1GB inactive, 2.55 free

    757,197 Page Ins

    0 Page Outs
It's confusing... If I haven't "swapped out" (page out) anything to disk, then how come I've "swapped in" (page in) 750,000 pages from the disk?

If you mmap a file, and then access the mmap'ed region, pulling in the pages of the file from disk is considered paging the file in. Watch the output of fs_usage to see examples of this.

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