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VPrime

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Dec 19, 2008
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Noticing some thing pretty weird the past couple days.. After using VMware Fusion, my available ram goes down A LOT. I put in 4gb a couple weeks ago, and every thing was fine. Even with vmware running I would have 2-2.5gb free.
But now, I usually have a couple hundred mb while running vmware after a while.
And when I shut the VM down, my free ram is still lower than it was before. According to activty monitor there are no processes usiing that much, and when I add them up it is not the 2+gb that stays missing.



I know OSX makes use of available ram, but is this normal? I did not notice this before..
 
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