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Re: a way to clear inactive RAM
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Re: a way to clear inactive RAM


  • Subject: Re: a way to clear inactive RAM
  • From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:46:31 -0500

Again, if you want to clear cached memory on disk, issue a shell purge.

All that other memory is being used for something.

On Nov 6, 2012, at 6:01 AM, Nick Rogers wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the replies.
> I was trying to achieve what essentially "free memory" apps on the Mac AppStore do.
> The RAM usage can be divided into four parts as shown in Activity Monitor.
> 1. Free
> 2. In-active
> 3. Active
> 4. Wired
>
> When I used my earlier app to allocate memory equal to free + inactive bytes, for the execution of the program it used to make the system less responsive for a few seconds and on release and quitting the app, most of the inactive memory would shift under free.
>
> e.g. if free is 1GB and inactive is 1.5GB, then after run, free would be 2.45GB and inactive just 50MB.
>
> Thanks again,
> Nick

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