All 4GB of Ram in use with only safari open

[Tom Foolery]

I just installed 4GB of OCZ RAM on my MBP. every time i run parallels it takes up about 1GB of RAM when i shut it down the ram doesn't free up the Ram status stays as Active/inactive.

Currently i'm only running safari and iTunes (each of which are using less than 100MB) and all 4GB of RAM is in use.

 

[miles01110]

I just installed 4GB of OCZ RAM on my MBP. every time i run parallels it takes up about 1GB of RAM when i shut it down the ram doesn't free up the Ram status stays as Active/inactive.

Currently i'm only running safari and iTunes (each of which are using less than 100MB) and all 4GB of RAM is in use.

Make this phenomenon happen again, open up terminal, type "top" and press enter. You should get something like:

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
2950 top 6.0% 0:00.50 1 18 29 512K 188K 1104K 18M
2935 bash 0.0% 0:00.01 1 14 19 308K 184K 944K 18M
2934 login 0.0% 0:01.93 1 17 55 316K 188K 1096K 19M

etc.

copy paste here.

 

[Tom Foolery]

Processes: 98 total, 4 running, 94 sleeping... 385 threads 22:13:54
Load Avg: 0.33, 0.32, 0.32 CPU usage: 18.72% user, 11.42% sys, 69.86% idle
SharedLibs: num = 28, resident = 49M code, 112K data, 3764K linkedit.
MemRegions: num = 13387, resident = 582M + 33M private, 213M shared.
PhysMem: 485M wired, 2396M active, 1201M inactive, 4079M used, 17M free.
VM: 8740M + 370M 245734(0) pageins, 10796(0) pageouts

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
836 ReportCras 7.1% 0:02.71 3 41+ 109 63M+ 2056K+ 64M+ 85M+
832 top 7.2% 0:00.73 1 19 31 624K 204K 1204K 18M
821 bash 0.0% 0:00.01 1 14 21 324K 188K 952K 18M
820 login 0.0% 0:00.08 1 17 56 480K 232K 1244K 19M
819 Terminal 1.2% 0:00.41 4 106- 212 2464K 11M 9244K 235M
818 qmgr 0.0% 0:00.00 1 15 20 168K 188K 776K 18M
817 pickup 0.0% 0:00.00 1 15 20 168K 188K 748K 18M
816 master 0.0% 0:00.01 1 15 24 224K 188K 752K 19M
811 System Eve 0.0% 0:00.29 2 63 184 2152K 9560K 6540K 187M
436 AppleSpell 0.0% 0:00.24 1 44 39 504K 5492K 3232K 34M
371 Transmissi 3.7% 4:38.76 7 172 399 10M 18M 21M 257M
364 pmTool 0.0% 0:59.90 1 24 31 568K 1752K 1444K 27M
363 Activity M 0.0% 0:47.41 5 115 253 5424K 25M 18M 273M
316 System Pre 8.0% 5:55.93 5 174 454 21M 16M 30M 283M
301 ATSServer 0.0% 0:00.08 2 65 77 492K 1388K 1812K 54M
282 mdworker 0.0% 0:00.67 4 55 191 1440K 3896K 7088K 42M