OS 10.5 - Memory usage

The Physicist · The Physicist #1 (**permalink**)

11-18-2007, 11:22 AM

Does anyone find that in leopard once you've opened a few programs (pages, safari, itunes, etc) that about half your RAM is used up, even after you close the programs?

I find that when I've just started leopard that about 500MB/2GB is used, but then once I've opened some programs it's about 1500MB/2GB, then once I close them it still stays like this. The only way to free the memory up is to restart the mac. It's not really an issue at the moment but I just wondered if this normal?

Stretch · Stretch #2 (**permalink**)

11-18-2007, 11:28 AM

My memory frees back up when I quit programs.

tweaked · tweaked #3 (**permalink**)

11-19-2007, 07:48 AM

Try this.. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos.../ifreemem.html

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Member Since: Jan 13, 2007 Location: Central New York Posts: 4,614 Mac Specs: 15in i7 MacBook Pro, 8GB RAM, 60GB SSD, 500GB HD	11-18-2007, 11:28 AM My memory frees back up when I quit programs. Blog and Photo Gallery: http://philolin.me/ Currently running OS X 10.8.2
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The Physicist #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 01, 2007 Posts: 63	11-18-2007, 11:22 AM Does anyone find that in leopard once you've opened a few programs (pages, safari, itunes, etc) that about half your RAM is used up, even after you close the programs? I find that when I've just started leopard that about 500MB/2GB is used, but then once I've opened some programs it's about 1500MB/2GB, then once I close them it still stays like this. The only way to free the memory up is to restart the mac. It's not really an issue at the moment but I just wondered if this normal?
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