Where on earth is CHUD?

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Where on earth is CHUD?

Hello,

I need a specific command line tool, which flushes the inactive memory and which is located within the CHUD package? (according to what I had found from google search) But I can't download it (the download links from C/Net or whatever seem not working) and I can't find it either in Apple's developers tools.

So the question is: Where's the download link, or where I can find the inactive memory flush tool either?

Best Regards
Nick

P.S.: I know that occupied inactive memory doesn't harm, but why to have 10GB inactive memory occupied with one time file copy contents?

MacPro 3.1, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Dec 3, 2010 4:11 AM

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etresoft

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Dec 3, 2010 7:24 AM in response to Dark Dude 64

Dark Dude 64 wrote:
I need a specific command line tool, which flushes the inactive memory and which is located within the CHUD package? (according to what I had found from google search) But I can't download it (the download links from C/Net or whatever seem not working) and I can't find it either in Apple's developers tools.

I think CHUD is long gone. I don't know what replaced it. I have heard that Disk Utility's Repair Permissions will free your inactive memory as a side effect.

P.S.: I know that occupied inactive memory doesn't harm, but why to have 10GB inactive memory occupied with one time file copy contents?

In case you need to copy the file a second time. This is how servers work. You want to go to the disk as little as possible. If some other process needs that memory, it will take it.

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