![]() With regards to the activity monitor ram display, i was aware that the mac should be able to use the inactive memory, but it does not appear to with her machines. She called me back a couple hours ago and actually told me that she has only NOW stopped using safari, and she does not seem to be running out of memory! She was going to keep me posted on how things go with firefox only. I was never able to pinpoint any process or application viewable through activity monitor that seemed to consume more resources than it should. My first suggestion to her on her second issue mac was to stop using safari, and try firefox. a simple google search for memory leaks and mac seem to overwhelmingly point in the direction of safari. Literally she was experiencing this behavior after simply installing "Boardmaker for Mac" which we do have other users using and not seeing this behavior. We are not collecting the unix info, but i will play with the top command a bit. ![]() I feel bad for her since im at a loss on where to go next.any suggestions? She has only installed 1 or two small programs on this machine so far since it was just issued to her on Monday. Ive gone through the running processes and cannot find anything odd, or anything consuming the memory. I've taught her the "Purge" command, but that only lasts for 5-10 minutes and then her 4 gigs are rapidly sitting in the Used, or Inactive category and the laptop is sluggish as can be. Each machine has started exhibiting severe memory leaks to the point it becomes unusable. She has been through 3 laptops, first was a 10.6.8 macbook pro, then a brand new 10.7 macbook pro and just recently we issued her a brand new 10.8 macbook pro. She is one of our heavier users, and also one of the more technically inclined. I have a single user(teacher) who seems to be plagued by a memory leak on her macbook pro laptops. Figured i would throw this out here since there seems to be a wealth of experience on this forum.
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