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What exactly is active memory?? I have a graph program for my ram and it seems that a lot of it is taken up by "Inactive memory". The program says that its something reserved for the cache.... What does that actually mean???? i have 768 megs of ram and ~351 of them are INACTIVE????? Thanx a bundle
Mac OS X has a "lazy" memory manager; it does not free RAM unless it needs to. Inactive memory is simply that was once in use, but can now be claimed if it is needed.
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