On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Charlie Dickman <[email protected]> wrote:
> What I want to do is determine the ratio of inactive to free in order to > determine when to execute the purge command to free up the inactive memory > before the system gets into trouble. That's not what purge(1) does. It simply forces all resident pages to be paged back out. It's not going to free up any address space, and it's not going to speed up the system (rather, it'll slow it down a lot, as every active process has to start hitting the disk to page its address space back in.) —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
