On Aug 17, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote: > When you say "free" I assume you mean the "free:" number listed in > activity viewer for the system as a whole?
> If so then what you are seeing is an expected result of the "unified > buffer cache" maintained by the system (since you say private memory > of your application doesn't increase). In a nut shell unused RAM is > wasted RAM so the system always attempts to cache once used pages of > memory (for example file data loaded by your application) as long as > possible until they need to be reused for active / new allocations. In an even smaller nutshell: you should consider Inactive as equivalent to Free in Activity Monitor's System Memory tab. Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
