[hldan]

Hi, I have a 17" Powerbook and I just downloaded Panther Cache Cleaner mainly to flush out memory that gets reserved in the "Inactive" box so it will stay available to use as well as other features it offers.
I set it in the "Automatic" mode to run maintanance scrips and clean system log archives every hour.
My question is how can I tell if and when it's doing the job automatically? I haven't noticed any message coming up on the screen saying it's actively doing maintainance. Will I have consistantly check to see if I have no page- outs or if I have free memory to know if it's working? Does this app have to be left open to be operative?
Anyone with advice or good feedback using this product? Any help appreciated.

[chris v]

The 'weekly' chron script is the one that cleans out inactive RAM. The only way to graphically see if it's working (that I know of) is to run Activity Monitor while it's running and watch your memory pie-chart.

Every hour seems excessive, though.

CV

[hldan]

Thanks so much Chris for the info. I just choze every hour to do maintainance tasks becuase I use Garageband and VPC on a daily basis and they use up so much ram and even after closing the apps the available memory stays in the "inactive" state and never returns to available on it's own and then the system slows a bit. Appreciate the reply.