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Program to show me what kind of apps are taking up inactive mem?
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I like to find out what program (even after quitting) has allocated memory to the "inactive slot". Is this possible and if so what is a name of such a program?
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Does Activity Monitor not do this?
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No it shows only memory that is being used - active memory. But what programs are being stored in the "inactive memory"?
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Originally Posted by tkmd 
No it shows only memory that is being used - active memory. But what programs are being stored in the "inactive memory"?
Select "Inactive Processes" from the drop down list in Activity Monitor's Toolbar.
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top shows you every single process running on the system, and its memory consumption. Activity Monitor is simply a GUI for top.
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I guess I am not being clear- inactive processes still take up active ram and thus their RAM usage is tagged as active. What I'm interested in is when I close a program, for instance- iphoto , the ram it used for itself is not flushed back into "free" state after I quit it,rather it is tagged as "inactive". I would like to view what programs are using ram in its inactive state.
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Technically nothing is "using" RAM in the inactive state. Its just marked with what it once belonged to. If you start another app that needs a big chunk of RAM it will be dramn from the free + inactive pool. I'm not aware of anything that lets you see what the inactive RAM belonged to, some poking around in the xnu sources maybe in order.
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Originally Posted by WJMoore
Its just marked with what it once belonged to.
Thats exactly what I'm looking to identify.
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What exactly are you trying to do? Is this just curiosity, or do you want this for some reason? There may be a better way to do what you want...
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Yes it is out of curiosity - to gain a better understanding of OS X memory management. Does it have preference to which closed programs memory it swapped out first and so forth.
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