Apple Mac OS X
Snow Leopard operating system.
Version: 10.6.2
RAM Activity Monitor Strange
Feedback Type: Usage Tip
Contributed by: unknown user--2008 Monday, February 11 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
After the 10.5.2 update, and following graphic update, Activity Monitor pie graph showed most of my 4 Gigs of RAM used (depicted as Inactive - blue), which was very strange. So, I shut down completely. Then upon reboot, my RAM was back and available (in green). In fact, now it is strange that after launching numerous applications there is still not any blue "Inactive" RAM on the pie graph. Something must be going on with this. But the OS seems to work fine!
RAM Activity Monitor Strange - HumanMedia
Thats how memory management works on OSX. It fills all the memory you have with everything that has been run. Then it only purges memory when its needed.Reply to This
Monday, February 11 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST