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2006-10-15, 04:17 PM
Yes, you're correct... it did give a bunch back when I needed RAM for another program, but the point was that it was hogging system resources enough to make the computer almost non-responsive - that shouldn't happen. But since I don't know for sure that that was the reason for the slow-down, I'm keeping an eye on it. Maybe it was just a fluke...
Anyone know at what point RAM becomes inactive? Even when I'm using programs that hog all my RAM, it still says I have 200-300 MB inactive. Why won't it take that back when I need it?
Speaking of large VM (zottel), OmniWeb is using 662MB VM, and another program is using 798MB VM. Those seem pretty large. But not nearly so much when I see that my dashboard widgets (some) are using 300MB VM! And a simple html editor is using 814MB VM!
Sometimes I really don't understand OSX's memory management...