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<blockquote data-quote="happles" data-source="post: 875388" data-attributes="member: 111103"><p>hey.</p><p></p><p>I bought my Macbook Pro 17'', Intel 3.06 GHz, 4 GB RAM a few days ago. (OS X 10.5.7)</p><p></p><p>However, I seem to keep experiencing this System memory issue...</p><p></p><p>Right after I start the Mac OS, I got around 3 GB of System Memory free (which is still a bit weird, is the Mac OS by itself requiring a whole GB of RAM?), but the more I use my system, the less RAM becomes available. This is normal, but I would expect the memory to return once the applications are closed. Shouldn't that happen?</p><p></p><p>However, after working with different applications, especially vmware-fusion, and Logic Pro, although I close the applications, only very little System Memory returns. I have attached a screen shot of the system, including the Activity Monitor window. As you can see, with only Safari and Finder opened, I only got less than 700 MB of memory free, out of the 4 GB I have </p><p></p><p>Is there any way to fix this? I believe this might be what is called a "memory leak". Is there any way to sort it out, without having to reboot my system each time I need memory?</p><p></p><p>Thanks, I really hope someone can help me out.</p><p></p><p>Cheers.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's the screenshot: <a href="http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4207/picture1ysl.png" target="_blank">http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4207/picture1ysl.png</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="happles, post: 875388, member: 111103"] hey. I bought my Macbook Pro 17'', Intel 3.06 GHz, 4 GB RAM a few days ago. (OS X 10.5.7) However, I seem to keep experiencing this System memory issue... Right after I start the Mac OS, I got around 3 GB of System Memory free (which is still a bit weird, is the Mac OS by itself requiring a whole GB of RAM?), but the more I use my system, the less RAM becomes available. This is normal, but I would expect the memory to return once the applications are closed. Shouldn't that happen? However, after working with different applications, especially vmware-fusion, and Logic Pro, although I close the applications, only very little System Memory returns. I have attached a screen shot of the system, including the Activity Monitor window. As you can see, with only Safari and Finder opened, I only got less than 700 MB of memory free, out of the 4 GB I have Is there any way to fix this? I believe this might be what is called a "memory leak". Is there any way to sort it out, without having to reboot my system each time I need memory? Thanks, I really hope someone can help me out. Cheers. Here's the screenshot: [url]http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4207/picture1ysl.png[/url] [/QUOTE]
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