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free memory status after memory upgrade
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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just installed 4gigs of ram to my mac pro 2.66 desktop
view the status monitor after few minutes and notice the free memory is down to few hundred mb..is that normal? should i worried about it?
i didn't perform any major tasks...only open few web browser windows..
also anyway to test the new memory?
thanks
phat
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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You should theoretically have gigs free if all you did was open a browser window or two, but it's not something to obsess about in and of itself. You should have received an Apple Hardware Test disc that you can use to test RAM. Otherwise, there is the command line tool memtest and its graphical freeware front-end Rember.
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
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Unused RAM is wasted RAM, so don't worry about it.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Posting Junkie
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie 
Unused RAM is wasted RAM, so don't worry about it.
Exactly. You want zero pageouts, not free RAM.
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