Snow Leopard Memory Hog
Any suggestions? or is everyone experiencing an significant increase of memory usage?.
Thanks.
MacBook Unibody 5,1, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Snow Leopard Memory Hog usage
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MacBook Unibody 5,1, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Snow Leopard Memory Hog usage
William Lloyd wrote:
Ah, spotlight is mds (lower case).
GFNG wrote:
I have a late 2008 Unibody 13" Macbook 2ghz w/ 2GB of memory. I took a screen shot of the Activity Monitor before installing the update and I had 1.4GB of free memory and now I have only 769MB free.
Pondini wrote:
GFNG wrote:
I have a late 2008 Unibody 13" Macbook 2ghz w/ 2GB of memory. I took a screen shot of the Activity Monitor before installing the update and I had 1.4GB of free memory and now I have only 769MB free.
How much Inactive memory is there? The only meaningful measure is the total of Free and Inactive.
When a running process releases memory, OSX removes it from Active, of course, but marks it Inactive and doesn't clear it, so it's faster to reassign if the same process needs it again. It only goes back to Free when the process that had it ends.
When a process requests new memory, OSX takes it from Free first; only if there isn't enough there will it take it from Inactive.
Snow Leopard Memory Hog