Mac Cleaner / Memory thing
Mac Cleaner / Memory thing
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Just elaborating on Craig's comment about Memory Clean,
free ram is wasted ram.
So at the minute I have:
Free: 130meg
Wired: 515meg
Active: 1.85gb
Inactive: 1.51gbPeople tend to see this and think "SHIT I'VE RUN OUT OF MEMORY" when that's just not true. Inactive ram is like a cache, data which apps are no longer using is dumped there and will be freed as required.
Running these commands and apps that "Free" memory do fuck all, it just dumps all the inactive ram back into free ram which is just going to make your machine slower because anything that was in there and could be used again quickly is all going to have to be read from disk again.