[rhodesy]

I am new to macs and have just recieved my new macbook pro.

I have 2gb ram installed.

I am currently looking at the Activity Monitor and what i see is alarming me but I don't kn ow if it's just macs...

It's showing roughly

Wired 200mb
Active 1.1gb
Inactive 300mb
free 600mb


All i have open is itunes playing music, and msn messenger, then the stuff that doesnt close...

Is this normal?

Thanks

[Tuoder]

yes. It sort of alarmed me, too, the first time, going from XP to OSX. OSX uses alot of memory.

[mrmister]

In OSX, memory that isn't used is wasted--so you want it using all the RAM. Launch more apps, and it will release that memory to them immediately.

[Tomchu]

What you're seeing is probably disk caching. Disk caching is great. Load up a few programs, close them again, then load them again. See how much faster they load?

Or grep a 700 MB avi for "asdfasdf". Then grep it again. See how much faster it's done the second time around? Disk caches again. :-)