[Ti] 10.2.6 update - minor feedback

[Kynan Shook]

Hmmm, if that were true, that would actually sound like *worse* memory 
management to me...  To a certain extent, you want as little "free" RAM 
as possible in OS X; the inactive category is for things that were once 
loaded into RAM, are no longer needed, but are still kept there in case 
they are needed again.  This makes the computer faster because it 
requires less hard drive access.

Of course, some things will never be used again; once the program is 
done with some data, it must be replaced from scratch rather than 
replaced from what it was when the program last finished.  But since 
the speed of RAM is about 3 orders of magnitude greater than the speed 
of the hard drive, it's an optimization worth having.

Peter Krug <pkrug at mac.com> writes:
> I have noticed that memory management may be improved.  I monitor my
> memory with MemoryStick - I have noticed that when applications quit,
> they give their memory space back to "free" memory instead of to
> "inactive" RAM.  I probably won't need to use MacJanitor every other
> hour anymore...


Kynan Shook
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