How is Mac OS memory handling different from Windows?
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I recently switched to a Mac, and have a laptop with 4GB of ram. When I look in the prosess explorer, I can see that almost all the memory is used, there is only a few hundred MB left. But almost 2GB is said to be "Inactive". What does this means? My best guess is that this memory is free to be use…
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Usually all available memory is put to use by the operating system as disk cache. What is already in memory doesn't need to be loaded from disk. When a program requests memory then necessarily the cache gets smaller. The Windows Task Manager doesn't…
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