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torrents sucking memory

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nillox


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hey just joined cuz iv a problem i need fixing, whenever i run tomato or transmission it seriosly sucks my memory, when i go to my activity monitor it shows iv 20.5mb of free memory and 1.24gb of inactive memory, but when i run everything except the torrents id still have at least a quater of memory left. its really bugging me cuz i went out of my way to get 2 gigs of memory and one program is sucking it all, i have pictures showin how bad it is but i dunno how to get it up. can any of ye help
 
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Torrents use alot of memory, they are constantly transfering data from RAM to the HD, want more free memory don't use torrents.
 

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