site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com <Dropping lots of the other stuff here> Steve _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... I imagine that a good chunk of inactive memory is page cache (or buffer cache. Not sure which apple uses). Can't these pages be ditched quickly? (while I'm at it, I sure wish there was a tool around that would show the size and contents indexed by inode of the buffer cache) This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com