Mac OS X: What is using my 'active' memory?
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I'm using a recent MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM and after a few hours of using it at work I notice the amount of 'active' memory growing and growing. Whenever I reboot my Mac, everything looks fine and it is hardly using any RAM. But after a few hours it looks like this: As you can see, in this cas…
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Fix for: Mac OS X: What is using my 'active' memory?
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Even though no single process has high memory usage, there are still lots of processes running -- that all adds up. Using and other command line tools, you can drill deeper into this. First, use options to to limit what is shown to just resident mem…
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