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Re:Ask HN: How much RAM do you have? Think you need more? by fr0stycr4ck on Thursday August 08, 2013 @06:35PM (#6182455)
After a program terminates the RAM is returned to OS X but it will not allow other applications use any of it. It is a bug with their virtual memory. It will say there are gigabytes of inactive memory but continue to use a swap and not allocate it.
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