mbp using swap but i still have over a gig of free ram?!?

[jus407]

My laptop is showing i have over 1.1 gigs of free ram available (it says its inactive) but its using 2mb of 64mb of swap why is that how can i get it to stop using swap and use the ram (its causing the spinny wheel to pop up a lot)

 

[jsnuff1]

i think the OSX is designed to page and swap usage when a certain percentage of ram is filled up. When I had 2GB of memory it would use the disk even though not all of my RAM was being used up, since of upgraded to 4GB i have had not a single byte page out or swap use.

 

[mgacam2]

Is this true? Because I was thinking my hard drive was going bad and I was going to take my laptop into Apple.

 

[killmoms]

My laptop is showing i have over 1.1 gigs of free ram available (it says its inactive) but its using 2mb of 64mb of swap why is that how can i get it to stop using swap and use the ram (its causing the spinny wheel to pop up a lot)

You can't, and I doubt the tiny amount of swap being used has anything to do with the spinny wheel.

 

[jus407]

You can't, and I doubt the tiny amount of swap being used has anything to do with the spinny wheel.

its because i had all of my active ram used up and all of my inactive ram wasnt being used so it was causing my laptop to use swap (which is why i think it was cauing the wheel to show up)


is there a way to force it to use the inactive ram when needed or something?

 

[heatmiser]

The computer is generally better at managing its resources than the user staring at the AM pie chart. Get more memory or stop worrying about it. :^)