Leopard and Used Memory..?

[SSpiro]

I've noticed in leopard that if I run an application, and it uses up say 1000mb of memory, and then I close that application, the memory doesn't free up - still shows as allocated.

Hope this makes sense.

Any thoughts?

 

[yellow]

Closing the app via the red button does not equal quitting the app.

 

[SSpiro]

Closing the app via the red button does not equal quitting the app.

I realize that. I've closed the app, and verified in activity monitor.

 

[xUKHCx]

Closing the app via the red button does not equal quitting the app.

As an aside to this the memory will not be released as Free memory in general. The system manages the memory and if there is space to keep the recently used application data in the ram it will do. This will help with launch times etc. if you decide to relaunch the application.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342

The only thing you really need to look at is the page ins/page outs as an indication of if you need more ram.

 

[yellow]

"free" memory and "inactive" memory should both be counted as "free" memory.