Re: Losing my memory - a caching problem?
Re: Losing my memory - a caching problem?
- Subject: Re: Losing my memory - a caching problem?
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:31:57 -0500
On Aug 17, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:
> When you say "free" I assume you mean the "free:" number listed in
> activity viewer for the system as a whole?
> If so then what you are seeing is an expected result of the "unified
> buffer cache" maintained by the system (since you say private memory
> of your application doesn't increase). In a nut shell unused RAM is
> wasted RAM so the system always attempts to cache once used pages of
> memory (for example file data loaded by your application) as long as
> possible until they need to be reused for active / new allocations.
In an even smaller nutshell: you should consider Inactive as equivalent to Free in Activity Monitor's System Memory tab.
Regards,
Ken
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