sambapati87
Well-known member
My Sawtooth (500mhz, 1.75gb, 10.5.4) never has free RAM.
Let me explain.
It is running Leopard, apache, mysql, and TorrentFlux (Python).
When I first boot the machine, 1.5GB of RAM is available. If I sit and watch it on 'top' or Activity Monitor, free RAM steadily decreases by about 5-10mb per second until it stops at around 8mb available. It did this before when I only had 1.5GB of RAM in it, but I added a 256mb module thinking it would give me some breathing room. Nope, it happily ate that up. Under activity monitor, the memory being used is listed as "inactive".
What gives? My MBP with 2GB will sit still at about 1gig of RAM free under normal use.
Let me explain.
It is running Leopard, apache, mysql, and TorrentFlux (Python).
When I first boot the machine, 1.5GB of RAM is available. If I sit and watch it on 'top' or Activity Monitor, free RAM steadily decreases by about 5-10mb per second until it stops at around 8mb available. It did this before when I only had 1.5GB of RAM in it, but I added a 256mb module thinking it would give me some breathing room. Nope, it happily ate that up. Under activity monitor, the memory being used is listed as "inactive".
What gives? My MBP with 2GB will sit still at about 1gig of RAM free under normal use.