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For the last ten years I have worked as an Affiliate and Consultant to many different business and start ups, my key skill set being online marketing, on page monetisation, landing page optimisation and traffic generation, if you would like to hire me or discuss your current project please reach out to me here. As the publishing and printing sector wained I moved into Internet Marketing and in 2006 co-founded which grew to become one the top 200 visited sites in the US (according to Quantcast), at its peak receiving over 15 million visits per month. I've been a passionate evangelist for Apple and the Macintosh throughout my working life, my first love was a Quadra 605 working with a small creative agency in the south of Norfolk UK in the mid 1990's, I later progressed to other roles in other Macintosh dominated industries, first as a Senior graphic designer at a small printing company and then a production manager at Guardian Media Group. You will see a huge difference in general usage. If your mac only has 2GB of ram, i would recommend upgrading to atleast 4GB. If you want to free the inactive memory simply select free memory. If you click it and go to usage you should see exactly how much memory your mac is using. You should see the memory usage in the top right toolbar.

Once you download the app from the store: The application is designed specifically for freeing memory. One of the best applications i’ve used is FreeMemory.įreeMemory is a free app on the mac appstore. If you don’t fancy using the terminal, then you can use software. Once it’s finished your mac should run a lot smoother. This should take a few mins, there maybe a slowdown until it’s finished.

Warning – Please purge use with caution as it’s not 100% safe to use. To cleanup the inactive memory you can open applications -> utilities -> terminal. Wired memory is system memory that Mac OS is using.Active memory is what your applications are currently using.Inactive is memory which has been used before but is no longer used.Free memory is any memory that is not used, which can be used by applications.The system will show you 4 different types of memory. We will go over the command purge, which gets rid of all the inactive memory in your ram. Using the terminal to free the memory is very simple but you will have to own the developer tools.

How to clean up mac using terminal