[jbleisure]

Running a PB 1.5GHz put in 1GB of ram 2 weeks ago on top of 512GB so now running with 1.5GB.

The new RAM made a big difference but just yesterday it's running 690.25 MB of inactive memory and I only have two apps open Safari & Activity monitor. For the last 2 weeks otherwise inactive memory has been fairly low comparatively.

I don't really understand wired and inactive memory.

Is there anything I should be doing........also if anyone cares to enlighten me as to the meaning/significance of wired and inactive memory that would eb helpful. Thanks

[Randman]

Could be Safari's memory leak. Empty cache, quit Safari and see what it does.

[jbleisure]

Ran Disk Utility and mac janitor and reclaimed over 500MB of free memory.....so found my own solution.

Still curious as to what hogged the inactive memory and what it means - so will help if anyone cares to throw light on that.........I suppose I could search....

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by jbleisure

I don't really understand wired and inactive memory.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107918

[jbleisure]

Thanks TETENAL that was helpful.

John