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Help me understand how this works. In the Activity Monitor, I've got: Wired, Active, Inactive, Used, and Free. What the..?? So, as I understand it:
Wired: RAM that is actively in use
Active: Uh... RAM that is actively in use.. ??
Inactive: RAM not being used but is for some reason tied up.. will be used as soon as it is needed (this is like Linux, how it eats up as much RAM as possible and gives it out to applications as needed, right?)
Used: A grand total of the above?
Free: free RAM
Then for each process, there's "Real Memory" used and "Virtual Memory." But if I total up all the "Real Memory", it doesn't add up to what's wired/active.
So.. how exactly does this work? For instance, my wired RAM is around 690MB, and active is around 373MB. But if I total up all the "real memory" for all the apps, it comes to 334MB. What gives?
Wired: RAM that is actively in use
Active: Uh... RAM that is actively in use.. ??
Inactive: RAM not being used but is for some reason tied up.. will be used as soon as it is needed (this is like Linux, how it eats up as much RAM as possible and gives it out to applications as needed, right?)
Used: A grand total of the above?
Free: free RAM
Then for each process, there's "Real Memory" used and "Virtual Memory." But if I total up all the "Real Memory", it doesn't add up to what's wired/active.
So.. how exactly does this work? For instance, my wired RAM is around 690MB, and active is around 373MB. But if I total up all the "real memory" for all the apps, it comes to 334MB. What gives?