Friday, June 1, 2012

Mac OS Purge Inactive Memory

In Mac OS, memory classified as "Inactive" is memory used by recently quit applications. The idea is that these applications can later be relaunched very quickly. As such, it also takes some time to be released into "Free" memory.

The purge command (which can be run from Terminal), will immediately purge this memory from "Inactive" to "Free"

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