Sunday 29 December 2013

Free up memory (RAM) in Mac OSX

While using Mac OSX at times you feel may some application is eating up too much memory, whereby the system performs too slowly. If you observe any noticeable lag in the performance, chances are a lot of memory RAM is being used up and the free RAM is too low.

In such a case, open the Terminal and type the following:

purge

This will free up a lot of used or inactive RAM.

In fact in order to check the exact figures, open the Activity Monitor from the Utilities. Then click the System Memory tab from bottom. Compare the figures of Used and Free Memory before and after running the purge command. You'll see that the Free Memory stats shoot up drastically, thereby improving the performance.


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