On Nov 6, 2012, at 3:01 AM, Nick Rogers <roger...@mac.com> wrote: > I was trying to achieve what essentially "free memory" apps on the Mac > AppStore do.
Those apps are useless, except as revenue generators for their authors. > 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. That doesn’t serve any useful purpose (it just slows down the OS), _unless_ you are trying to profile a cold launch of an app at system startup, i.e. see how your app performs when none of its code or data are possibly still cached. And in that case the ‘purge’ command will do the job. —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/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
