On 25 May 2015, at 12:22, H J <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working on clearing out those tabs now. But setting aside any questions > about FF memory leaks, I'm puzzled by what Activity Monitor's "System Memory" > section shows when such slowdowns occur. The Free: line typically shows > <100MB (sometimes <10MB !),
Free Memory is wasted memory. Ideally, you will have 0bytes free. > [EDIT: removed Activity Monitor screenshot to avoid spam filter. AM was > showing FF at CPU=0.5%, Real Mem=721MB, Virtual Mem=618MB; and, under System > Memory at the bottom, Free=54MB, Wired=600MB, Active=2.26GB, Inactive=1.10GB, > Used=3.95GB.] The numbers you care about are PageOuts, IIRC from 10.6.8. > Does anyone know why I would be seeing such a large number for Inactive > memory? That’s good. > It seems a waste to have it sitting there if my system is suffocating for > whatever reason. No. It would be a waste to have it sitting there as free memory. Your machine will run 10.10 (and 10.11). Memory management is much improved in 10.10 and 10.11, so I would install the latest OS as soon as you install the new RAM, if not before. -- I WILL STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TWELVE INCH PIANIST Bart chalkboard Ep. 3F07 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
