Snow Leopard and Lots of Page Outs

Since upgrading to Snow Leopard I've had lots more Page Outs in memory then I ever had before. I have no new programs and my general use has not changed but suddenly I've gone up from about 0.1% page outs to around 1-2%. The performance has definitely not been faster than 10.5.
Any ideas?

I think you mean 'thrashing'....
From elsewhere on the 'net:
To decrease excessive paging, and thus possibly resolve a thrashing problem, a user can do any of the following:
• Increase the amount of RAM in the computer (generally the best long-term solution).
• Decrease the number of programs being concurrently run on the computer.

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Do a backup, preferably 2 separate ones on 2 separate drives.
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Good Morning,
I have a MacBook Pro 15" and my warranty just ran out! I partitioned my harddrive into two partitions, one with Snow Leopard and the other with microsoft.This morning I turned on my Macbook Pro and it will not boot into Snow Leopard. I shut it off took out the battery, reinstalled the battery. Then I put in the Snow Leopard CD and booted up to disk utility and The Snow Leopard partion would not show up?? I do see the microsoft partion.
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If your Mac meets these requirements:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575
then you can order a Snow Leopard disk and install it.
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Ciao.

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1: Copy all your user files to a regular external drive and disconnect.
2: Carbon Copy Cloner your 10.6.8 setup to another blank HFS+Journaled external drive and disconnect.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
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http://www.eggfreckles.net/tech/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/
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9: Once that's done, Option boot off the 10.6.8 clone and Carbon Copy Clone 10.6.8 onto the Snow Leopard partition.
Walla, a dual boot system with all your stuff intact. Just hold option upon boot and/or use the Startup Disk in System Preferences to set a default.
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Note: OS X Lion reguires a internet connection to install, even from a boot DVD.
Enjoy.

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hi,
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I can't eject the CD, or figure out which drivers it needs, & how to get them.
I've noticed a lot of people are having this same issue with various PC manufacturers and various releases of Windows 7...
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hi,
i'm replying again to my own question with more info
basically i inserted the snow leopard and the mac os x install dvd's that shipped with my early 2009 nehalem mac pro tower into a windows machine. i was able to "explore" the dvd using windows and found some boot camp support folders which contained drivers.
i copied these drivers to a thumb drive.
so now, during the windows 7 install... i have the option of navigating to these drivers on my thumb drive.
however - i don't see any potential drivers for the dvd burner/ superdrive...
here is the list of companies/ drivers supplied:
ATI
Broadcom
Marvell
Apple
Cirrus
MotorolaSetup.exe
Asix
IDT SigmaTel
NVidia
Atheros
Intel
RealTekSetup.exe
it is my understanding that the superdrive is hitachi...
the information on this drive inside the system profiler is as follows:
"HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH41N:
Firmware Revision: PQ05
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds"
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