Inactive memory
I have an iMac, 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Leopard 10.5.8 and 4GB of SDRAM on board.
I would have thought that 4GB of RAM would be sufficient to run most processes; however, I have recently installed Capture One (a photo raw file editing program) and am finding that it eats into the RAM very very quickly to the point at which it crashes. What seems confusing is that this seems to happen when my activity monitor still shows that I have about 1GB of inactive memory available. My question therefore is why is this memory not being used when it is required? Is it reserved only for some applications?
Many thanks for all offers of assistance.
Intel Core Duo 3.06GHz iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)