Activity Monitor Log

I’m currently using Activity Monitor to log the RAM loading on my computer - the company that I work for wants to buy me a new Mac (Yay!) but the IT guys (who know nothing about Macs) want me to tell them what my high, low and median RAM usage is so that they can work out a spec for what Mac to get me (bah!).

This is the bit of the Actvity Monitor Screen that I’m particularly interested in …

Does anyone have a script that will look at Activity monitor, say, every 5 or 10 minutes or so during the day and then create a log file in something like TextEdit, saving it onto the desktop with the load figures in it?

I’d write one myself but this is a bit beyond my abilities!

Will that save the info into a Text Edit document? I just ran it but it didn’t seem to do that.

With unified memory, this becomes less important than it was in the past…Gruber’s latest podcast addresses some of this, and there are a few links in the podcast info which might also provides some insights for you. Daring Fireball podcast