in reply to Inactive memory and OSX

Not knowing the definition of 'inactive memory' in OSX, I can only speculate, but...

Perhaps its just memory being used as buffer cache by the OS when reading large (GB+) sized files. Does something like cat bigfile | grep NoSuchPattern show similar OS memory usage?

Dave.

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Re^2: Inactive memory and OSX
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 05, 2013 at 09:10 UTC
    OS X seems to use a similar reporting scheme as FreeBSD (documented here):
    Mem: 346M Active, 319M Inact, 487M Wired, 4584K Cache, 392M Buf, 2530M Free

    Inactive in OS X is a code word for the file system cache; hence, nothing to worry about (even though a fair amount of people foolishly do)

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