Again, if you want to clear cached memory on disk, issue a shell purge. All that other memory is being used for something.
On Nov 6, 2012, at 6:01 AM, Nick Rogers wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the replies. > I was trying to achieve what essentially "free memory" apps on the Mac > AppStore do. > The RAM usage can be divided into four parts as shown in Activity Monitor. > 1. Free > 2. In-active > 3. Active > 4. Wired > > When I used my earlier app to allocate memory equal to free + inactive bytes, > for the execution of the program it used to make the system less responsive > for a few seconds and on release and quitting the app, most of the inactive > memory would shift under free. > > e.g. if free is 1GB and inactive is 1.5GB, then after run, free would be > 2.45GB and inactive just 50MB. > > Thanks again, > Nick _______________________________________________ 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
