Actually, when Safari is paging to the HD because it decided it needed to use 5+ GB of RAM, purge is really useful in temporarily getting the Mac back to normal speed until the memory bloats again.
On Aug 13, 2012, at 5:54 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Charlie Dickman <3tothe...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> What I want to do is determine the ratio of inactive to free in order to >> determine when to execute the purge command to free up the inactive memory >> before the system gets into trouble. > > That's not what purge(1) does. It simply forces all resident pages to be > paged back out. It's not going to free up any address space, and it's not > going to speed up the system (rather, it'll slow it down a lot, as every > active process has to start hitting the disk to page its address space back > in.) > > —Jens > _______________________________________________ > > 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: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
