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Using available RAM is good, not bad. Why do you have those 8 GBs of RAM if you want your system to starve (read: use more _slow_ HDD) and use the half of it? I
by conductor 13y ago
Using available RAM is good, not bad. Why do you have those 8 GBs of RAM if you want your system to starve (read: use more _slow_ HDD) and use the half of it? It's OK when OSes use all the RAM for caches and buffers, they are smart enough to invalidate them (or move to the SWAP) if some application needs more memory.
- fr0stycr4ck 13y agoAfter a program terminates the RAM is returned to OS X but it will not allow other applications use any of it. It is a bug with their virtual memory. It will say there are gigabytes of inactive memory but continue to use a swap and not allocate it.