[fuzzball963]

I just got my new MBP and have a gigabyte of Ram in it. The only problem I'm having is that whenever I launch any Rosetta app such as Office or Maya PLE, my RAM goes down to around 50MB free space instead of around 600MB. Is there any way to gain back that RAM besides rebooting? I have to use Office on a regular basis but also want enough RAM available to do other things .

[wadesworld]

Why do you want free RAM? Free RAM is wasted RAM.

Is the application refusing to run?

In short, you're WAY behind on how a modern operating system uses RAM. Quit trying to apply Classic MacOS rules to OS X.

[fuzzball963]

Actually I'm used to having to have as much RAM as possible because I'm coming from the Windows side of things where if you fill up that RAM you can have issues. I also meant that even when I close the Office app totally the RAM usage doesnt go down and then when I try to launch say Call of Duty 2 it eventually exits out due to not enough memory . And I have tweaked the video settins and such on the game to so I don't think that's the issue.

[TETENAL]

Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor

[fuzzball963]

Thanks for the link . I always wondered how it differed from RAM reading in Windows