Free RAM on X6

This thread is just a log of amount of available free ram on the X6. Although there are many such threads for other devices, I couldn't find one for X6.
In my case:
After restart: 38-43
After hours of Heavy use: 24-37
I used handy taskman to keep tabs.
On some other threads I read people have posted that their n97s have upto 50mb free after a restart...and that has never happened with my X6. Maximum I ever had was 45mb.
Nokia X6 32Gb (comes with music)

Steve Litchfield from All About Symbian has written a very good article about free RAM in the last day or so...
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Ahead_of_and_behind_the_need_for_RAM.php
If you look at the graph he has produced the X6 would be slightly below the N97. In some ways I miss my N82. Nokia really just risk alienating their customers by scrimping on RAM on their handsets.
S.
History: Motorola MR30, Nokia: 7110, 7650, N70, N80, N82, X6 (32GB), Samsung Galaxy SII
Current: Samsung Galaxy Note3 Black

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Free RAM - a dif in iBook performance between 25M and 1G?

Hi...I keep several programs running on my iBook 1.33 with 768 onboard. Activity Monitor shows that at its lowest, my free RAM dips to around 25 or so megs when I'm streaming video from a news site.
My question is whether or not there is a difference in the Book's performance when I have 25 megs of free RAM....or 500 megs? Or being "in the green" means that there is simply enough...being "greener" won't make a difference...
I know that more is always better, but I'd like to know if more is necessary.
The answer will determine whether or not I switch out the 512 for a 1G.
I'd appreciate any feedback...Thanx!

In those instances where chip RAM is needed (and not in a video-intensive
situation where you can't upgrade VRAM, and regular RAM is not shared)
the chip RAM is faster and more readily is available to priority applications
and the OS X system itself. And Virtual Memory (VM) is slower, due to
the fact that is derived by the computer having to read-write to/from the
internal hard disk drive, and that is a slower and less-direct process.
Another way to speed up a limited upgrade option computer would be to
pay to have (or be brave and suffer any consequences, and DIY) the
internal hard disk drive replaced with a faster spin-rate new drive which
also has a larger buffer - and - more free space. This and the chip RAM
could make the computer act more like a faster model computer. At
least until the hard disk drive gets fragmented and or more than 3/4 full.
There are more than a few things one can do to enhance the performance
of the hard to upgrade iBook G4 (or iMac G4) since you can't change the
CPU or make the system bus work any faster. Bottlenecks aside, a few
items that can be upgraded, along with a regimen of routine maintenance
can help almost any computer not pushed beyond its limits, to work better.
Even with a hard disk drive only 75% full, it can be more sluggish and
waste processing and swap-file cycles (moving data bits as VM to/from
the hard disk drive when taxing the limited resources of the computer)
if the hard disk drive has never seen much maintenance. If you use an
external FireWire enclosed hard disk drive, and learn how to clone the
whole iBook's drive contents over, then be sure the clone-copy can boot
the computer, before proceeding; you could use the disk utility to wipe
the drive and use the zero-overwrite option, totally erasing and then to
reformat the drive again, to clear any low-level issues and defragment
the drive, (plus pull any seldom used saved items off the computer,
to free-up hard disk drive space, for the system to use as swap & VM)
you could also reclaim some of the original illusions of speed now lost.
{As the computer's OS gets more and more parts, updates and also
any application and associated files to sort through, it will run slower;
VM also this adds into the mix, with a fuller and older hard disk drive.}
In reference to: ' replacing an iBook G4's hard disk drive? ' you may wish to
read links here: http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/142/
In reference to bootable clones of OS X systems:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Minor to major background maintenance, preventative, can be helped
through the use of this utility interface tool; it can help the OS X and
your computer generally run a bit better. I use OnyX's 'automation'
selection and also have this utility's preferences set for it to restart
by itself after it runs all of the checkboxed items in this set. For this,
see: Titanium Software - OnyX: http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
Also, About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions (& 'repair disk' from
the booted installer's version of Disk Utility; research this further.)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452
Sometimes, even just repairing those disk permissions can help; and
the OnyX tool can run that, as part of the Automation sequence; but
it should be run more often from D.U. than you'd need to use OnyX.
Troubleshooting permissions issues in OS X (and using Disk Utility)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712
There is a relationship between RAM, free HDD space as Virtual Memory,
system maintenance, disk drive health, and other interrelated details.
Good luck & happy computing!
edited 2x to add links.

MacBook Pro being really slow and vert little free RAM.

Hi,
Just recently my MacBook Pro has been running really slowly when navigating between applications and tabs in safari. I checked to see how much RAM was free and it said only 30MB. I have no more apps open or things running than I normally do. This Mac is 6 months old but my old mac that was nearly 3 years old tended to run quicker, and as mentioned, I have no more apps running than I previously had. Maybe Word, Excel, iTunes and Safari. Can anyone help explain what might be making it slow and what might be hogging all the RAM?
Thanks
Matt

I ran the Etrereport and this is what i got back.
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
          1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
          4 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 18 days 11:12:23
Disk Information:
          APPLE HDD HTS545050A7E362 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (298.86 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS41N
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
          com.intego.netbarrier.kext.monitor          (653)
          com.intego.netbarrier.kext.network          (653)
          com.intego.netbarrier.kext.process          (653)
          com.intego.virusbarrier.kext.realtime          (772)
Launch Daemons:
          [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.commonservices.daemon.integod.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.commonservices.daemon.taskmanager.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.commonservices.icalserver.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.commonservices.metrics.kschecker.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.netbarrier.daemon.logger.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.netbarrier.daemon.monitor.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.netbarrier.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.netupdate.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.virusbarrier.daemon.emlparser.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.virusbarrier.daemon.logger.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.virusbarrier.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.virusbarrier.daemon.scanner.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
          [System] com.intego.commonservices.integomenu.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.commonservices.taskmanager.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.commonservices.uninstaller.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.netbarrier.alert.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.netupdate.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.intego.virusbarrier.alert.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
          [not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist 3rd-Party support link
          [not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
          iTunesHelper
          AdobeResourceSynchronizer
          Dropbox
Internet Plug-ins:
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          Mathematica: Version: 9.0.1.4055068 3rd-Party support link
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link
Safari Extensions:
          My eBay Manager: Version: 3.0.1.9
          AdBlock: Version: 2.6.18
          Searchme: Version: 1.2
          YouTube5: Version: 2.6.7
          FlashToHTML5: Version: 2.9
          Plugin Customs: Version: 2.0.1
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
          Java 3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
          /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MERP2.0
                    Microsoft Error Reporting:          Version: 2.2.9 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Ship Asserts:          Version: 1.1.4 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
          Solver:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Add-Ins/Solver.app
          SLLauncher:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Silverlight/OutOfBrowser/SLLauncher.app
          /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office
                    Open XML for Excel:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Office Setup Assistant:          Version: 14.2.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Alerts Daemon:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    SyncServicesAgent:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Database Daemon:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Graph:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Database Utility:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Office Reminders:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Upload Center:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    My Day:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Chart Converter:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Clip Gallery:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
          /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011
                    Microsoft PowerPoint:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Excel:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Outlook:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Word:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Document Connection:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
          Microsoft Language Register:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Additional Tools/Microsoft Language Register/Microsoft Language Register.app
          Microsoft AutoUpdate:          Version: 2.3.6 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app
Time Machine:
          Mobile backups: OFF
          Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
          Volumes being backed up:
                    Macintosh HD: Disk size: 464.96 GB Disk used: 186.63 GB
          Destinations:
                    TIME MACHINE [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 465.44 GB
                    Total number of backups: 2
                    Oldest backup: 2013-12-12 11:22:58 +0000
                    Last backup: 2014-02-12 17:21:07 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Too small
                              Backup size 465.44 GB < (Disk used 186.63 GB X 3)
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          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
              17%          mds
               9%          WindowServer
               2%          EtreCheck
               2%          Dock
               2%          Finder
Top Processes by Memory:
          156 MB          Finder
          90 MB          iTunes
          86 MB          systemstats
          70 MB          Safari
          66 MB          mds_stores
Virtual Memory Information:
          1.02 GB          Free RAM
          1.13 GB          Active RAM
          492 MB          Inactive RAM
          740 MB          Wired RAM
          8.67 GB          Page-ins
          729 MB          Page-outs

Spinning beachballs, slow machines, and vanishing free RAM

I have a tale to tell and a question at the end.
I have an iBook G4, running OS10.3.9. I have been using it without major problems for over a year. I have over 9 G of free disk space.
About a month ago, with no apparent cause, I became afflicted with the spinning beach ball of death. This would happen usually after I had been using the machine for a few hours and had three or four major applications running: iTunes, Word, Entourage, and Safari, say. The machine would become unresponsive. The beach ball would appear for virtually every mouse click. At its worst, it could take three minutes or more for the machine to respond to a command. Once in this state, even quitting applications did not significantly increase speed. Usually a restart did, but not always.
The affliction was unpredictable. I could go several days without a problem, and then, bingo, I’m in the molasses again.
What did I do? I updated my anti-virus software and gave a scan — no problems found. I checked for updates for my various applications and for the operating system. Suspecting Entourage, which has been prone to slowness, I rebuilt its database. I think I rebuilt my desktop, too. I ran Disk Utility and fixed permissions — no improvement. I ran Tech Tool — no problems found. I ran MacJanitor — no improvement. I ran Activity Monitor to see if the CPU was tied up. No, it wasn’t. Was the RAM overloaded? I only had 256 M, and it was basically fully allocated most of the time. I had significant numbers of page-outs. The green wedge of free RAM on the Activity Monitor pie chart was just a sliver.
So, I installed another 512 M of RAM. This seems to have helped. But to my surprise it hasn’t completely cured the problem.
I keep Activity Monitor running and set its icon in the dock to show RAM use. At the beginning of the day, maybe 70 percent of the RAM is green (free). After I start my usual round of applications, the green slice drops to say 40 percent.
Now here is the odd thing: the amount of green will shrink during the day. There seems to be a ratchet effect going on. When I start an application, the amount of free RAM shrinks. When I quit the application, some of the free RAM comes back, but not all of it. Also, the amount of free RAM may shrink even if I do nothing at all — if I just go for a break and come back to my machine a while later.
Right now, it is late in the day. I am back to a sliver of green on the RAM chart. I have tried restarting my computer. Instead of the 70 percent green wedge I expected, it came right back to a nearly fully allocated RAM. If I try to switch between apps or start a new app, or even copy something to the clipboard, I may get a beach ball for five to twenty seconds — or I may not. It's unpredictable.
Another odd thing: The amount of memory listed as in use by various processes in Activity Monitor does not add up to the amount of memory shown as in use on the pie chart. The sum of the memory listed in use is lower than the amount shown in use on the pie chart.
So what is going on? Is this just bad memory management by OSX? Has my machine’s RAM been taken over by aliens? Or is it something else? And is there a cure?
Thanks for any help.
- Ken
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

An update -- and hopefully a root cause and solution.
The maintenance task that seemed to free up the RAM was rebuilding the locate database, one of the weekly tasks that MacJanitor or OnyX will do on request. Why it worked, I don't know. It seemed to reduce the amount of assigned but inactive RAM.
It was only a temporary fix though. The amount of free RAM would begin to slowly drop after the task was done, and within a few hours it would be almost gone again.
Yesterday afternoon, the spinning beachball returned with a vengance. This time, however, it appeared while over half the RAM was free. Tasks shown in Activity Monitor, particularly window servers, began to hang.
I repaired permissions. No improvement. I ran Disk Utility from the start-up disk. It found problems on the hard drive that it could not repair. I ran Tech Tool from its CD. The hard drive failed Tech Tool's write and read buffer tests and had flaws in its directory. Tech Tool repaired the directory. I rebooted OS X, and the machine still had the slows. I backed up key data. I ran Tech Tool again from the CD. This time the disk passed the read and write buffer tests, but the directory was rotten again.
I repaired the directory and did an Archive and Install of the operating system. When the machine restarted, I ran Software Update. It downloaded 8 files. When it tried to then read them on the disk and install them, every one of them was corrupted.
Cut to punchline: I took the machine to an Apple Store today and they diagnosed a bad hard drive. I suspect that an infrequent intermittent disk error, worse in the afternoons when the machine was warm, was the source of the problems from the beginning. Yesterday, the disk failure became more frequent. By today, the disk was basically useless.
Thank you, Andrew at the Apple Genius Bar. Thank you, makers of external hard drives that make frequent back-ups easy. Back up your data, friends. Hard drives can fail.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

How can I know the amount of free RAM when my VI is running?

I need to know the amount of free RAM when my VI is running.

If you are using Windows NT/2000/XP, monitoring free memory is very easy. Simply right click on the task bar and open the Task Manager. Click on the Performance tab, and you'll be able to monitor the physical memory total and available on your PC.
If you are using Windows 9X, you will have to add some optional resources. Open Control Panel, then select Add/Remove Programs. Click on the Windows Setup Tab, and select System Tools, then click the Details... button. Check the boxes to install System Monitor and System Resource Meter. Click OK, and you will be prompted for your Windows CD. Insert the CD and Windows will add the monitoring tools. You can then use them to watch your free resources.

Too small free ram on nokia e72

i got too small free ram on my nokia e72 (about 30 mb free ram), i can't make a full multy tasking on my e72 device,.. Anybody have same trouble..??? Let's nokia solving it in new firmware

Hi agus_ependi,
Welcome to the Nokia discussion boards!
It may be so that you are running out of memory on the phone memory because you may have installed applications and saved media onto this drive. Try saving and installing these onto the mass memory or memory card because this will free up vital phone memory that your E72 needs.
Let us know how you get on.
Regards,
haZey
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Database Instance Using Swap Space even When There is Plenty of Free RAM

Hi,
I am facinga strange issue in oracle on solaris 5.10
Platform:solaris 5.10
Database version:11.2.0.1.0
Our database Instance Using Swap Space even When There is Plenty of Free RAM.
We have 80GB of physical RAM, 32GB is set to oracle SGA_MAX_SIZE
memory parameters:
memory_max_target big integer 32G
memory_target big integer 32G
sga_max_size big integer 32G
sga_target big integer 32G
but still oracle is taking memory from swap even though we have enough physical memory.
please find the top output
load averages: 0.09, 0.18, 0.84 01:07:49
134 processes: 133 sleeping, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 99.4% idle, 0.4% user, 0.3% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 80G real, 69G free, 35G swap in use, 49G swap free
PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
1052 oracle 13 59 0 95M 66M sleep 13:16 0.07% oraagent.bin
10256 oracle 1 59 0 32G 835M sleep 0:00 0.03% oracle
1227 oracle 15 59 0 78M 56M sleep 4:27 0.02% ocssd.bin
9524 vector1 112 59 0 1704M 776M sleep 45:04 0.02% java
988 oracle 38 59 0 119M 92M sleep 3:00 0.02% ohasd.bin
1297 oracle 1 101 -20 453M 390M sleep 2:47 0.02% oracle
1765 oracle 1 101 -20 32G 329M sleep 2:45 0.02% oracle
10258 oracle 1 59 0 32G 345M sleep 0:00 0.02% oracle
10259 oracle 1 59 0 3400K 2024K cpu/20 0:00 0.01% top
1777 oracle 1 59 0 32G 342M sleep 1:14 0.01% oracle
1246 oracle 6 59 0 56M 44M sleep 1:22 0.01% diskmon.bin
1803 oracle 1 59 0 32G 514M sleep 0:30 0.01% oracle
1215 oracle 15 59 0 71M 46M sleep 1:12 0.00% cssdagent
1307 oracle 1 59 0 453M 390M sleep 0:45 0.00% oracle
1217 oracle 11 59 0 81M 49M sleep 0:35 0.00% orarootagent.bi
Vmstat output:
$vmstat 5 5
kthr memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s3 s3 s3 s3 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 53698448 73900568 20 81 32 6 5 0 1 -0 0 1 -0 2235 1447 1984 1 0 99
0 0 0 51196160 72037552 1 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2505 1403 2204 0 0 100
0 0 0 51193488 72035864 55 380 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2487 2143 2203 0 1 99
0 0 0 51183856 72030176 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2496 1370 2182 0 0 99
0 0 0 51182648 72029112 22 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2503 1408 2193 1 0 99
$cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 10/09 s10s_u8wos_08a SPARC
Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 16 September 2009
I refered the metalink document id: [ID 761960.1]
Database Instance Using Swap Space When There is Plenty of Free RAM metalink note [ID 761960.1]
and tried the disabling the sga_max_size and memory_max_target and memory target with all different combination but no use.
We have one more box where same setup was configured in solaris platform but there the above memory parameters are not disabled but it is not using swap space it takes memry only from physical RAM
Can any one throw some lights on this issue. It wopuld be great if I come to know where the exact problem
Thanks in advance
With Regards,
Boobathi P

Hi,
I didn't say I am not using 11gr2 memory parameters I am using all the automatic memory parameters but the thinks is as per the metalink note I tried by disabling the automatic memory parameters. but that didn't help me in preventing unnecessary swap usage. So I reverted. now it is using automatic memory parameters.
so What is the solution for this?
With Regards,
Boo

After Effects not using free RAM?

Hi there
Just like to ask question regarding after effects and ram usage.
I remember before I installed the app Memory Booster - that allows you to keep track of how much ram, there was a healthy use of RAM there from after effects.
But i noticed today, whilst rendering and doing background cache rendering, the free RAM still available stays at around 4GB and I am wondering why it's not using this free RAM to help faster rendering?
this is my current multi-processing/ram settings on AE- essentially it should be using up to 6.5 GB of RAM as i allocated as I need faster rendering? Just wondering why it's staying stuck at around 3-4GB of free RAM on my system when it could clearly be used by AE. I want AE to use the RAM as it is the only running program on my system when i work!
Memory Booster down to 3.18GB with one safari tab open for Adobe forums, when exiting, it jumps back up to 4GB free RAM
Confused!
Thanks

Different projects, different footage attributes, different AE features used, different effects used, different delivery specs....
...are you comparing apples to apples, or apples to ORANGES? We don't know that.

E72: Low free RAM is a HUGE HUGE HUGE BUG!

HI 2 everybody.
I bought an E72 some days ago, and I really suprised about the product quality. Of course, in this case "quality" means some things very good, and some things VERY bad. But the problem is, in this case, bad things.
WHY IN THE HELL E72 HAS SO LOW FREE RAM?
It's incredible, I remember N95-1. The main difference is N95-1 had 64MB, E72 doubles that! I cannot believe that after booting up, the phone left only 28MB out of 128! I cannot load 2 big programs simultaneously, because the OS crash at any moment because of low free memory. I never had this problem with my "oldie but goodie" E71. And I'm surprised that, after 2 firmware revisions, Nokia doesn't solve the problem! Why??? It's so difficult to unload many unused processes? Is so difficult to activate some type of virtual memory? AFAIK, N95-1had virtual memory. And, by the way: why E71 doesn't come with 192 or 256MB RAM???
Now, knowing the fact that Nokia doesn't want to solve this issue, well... Anyone has trying or tried to solve that? Any Symbian expert? Perhaps killing unused or annoying processes?
Thanks a lot.
Nokia: IT'S A SHAME!

To the OP, its not a bug, but a total failure of the development process. Its quite pathetic that even the E63 has 70MB free after startup while the E72 has only 40MB.
As soon as you load any WWW page the thing flunks.
So apart from using it as a tether device to my laptop the E72 is a failure as any sort of net enabled phone ... compared to my E63 (and yes I have both) its speed only helps you to hit dead ends faster

Too Much Inactive RAM, Too Little Free RAM

I used to have a 2007 iMac running Snow Leopard, and I switched to a 2011 iMac running Mountain Lion. On both of my computers, I kept running out of free RAM after a while, and my inactive RAM kept taking up all my free RAM. It still does it. I end up with around 30MB of free RAM, a reasonable amount of active RAM, and a massive amount of inactive RAM after a few days, then my computer slows down a lot.
I have to keep flushing the inactive RAM with a memory cleaning tool or else my computer slows to a crawl. Repairing the permissions is supposed to clean out the inactive RAM (thanks, Tuttle), but alarmingly, this doesn't work for me. There must be something causing this problem, and I want to find it. How do I do this? Can processes currently running be using inactive RAM, or is that only possible if they have just been closed? Is there a tool that can check how much inactive RAM is allocated to each process?
P.S. To make it clear: I know that I'm not supposed to worry about inactive RAM and let the system do its own optimization, but it must not be doing it right because it's causing extremely noticeable slowdowns. The computer is like a Geo Metro pulling a whale if I don't flush the inactive RAM periodically.

Since you are so concerned, take your iMac to your local AS or an AASP for a FREE diagnostic test. At least you will have piece of mind when you get a confirmation of what is really going on.

FREE RAM XP PRO for MAC?

Just wondering if there is anything similiar to the PC program FreeRAM for Macs?
This is a program that automatically or manually restores wasted RAM but I think that it only runs on Windows.
thanks,
frank

Hello,
Those types of programs have been available for PC's and Macs for years (though I don't know of any current version for OS X).
In short, every one that has ever been released has later been proven to fail to accomplish what it claimed. Most of them, actually decrease the amount of free RAM (at minimum by the amount of space required for the controlling program). But, at best, no real benefit has been proven.
I've tinkered with a few several years ago, and it turned-out to be artificial gains. No real gains. Just perceived benefits and no real actual memory savings / increase. Often, the computer would report more memory available, but in truth that wasn't the case.
I would personally recommend staying away from such programs. Every time one has hit main-stream popularity, there was a mad rush mere months later to find a way to get rid of it.
You will not be doing yourself any favors installing such programs.
Aside from that, there has not yet been a memory management system released yet that surpasses OS X's management yet.
I hope this helps.

Free ram to Inactive Ram

I'm not really sure how to ask this, but here goes. I know that inactive ram is better than free ram, inactive ram actually helps speed up my computer. And I know that free ram isn't really being used by the computer. I see that I usually have anywhere from 80 to 120 mb of free ram. I guess the question, how can I get that free ram to become inactive ram so that my laptop is at full potential? Thanks guys.

Free RAM hasn't been used by any process recently, while inactive RAM has been used by a process and is being preserved in case the application which previously used it needs it again. You can use up the free RAM by opening additional applications, but if you don't intend to do anything else in those applications, you will not get any speed benefits by doing this.
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Free RAM memory

Hi,
Is there any C function that returns the total RAM memory
and the free RAM memory in my CPU ?
How to use the function ?
Thanks,

The kstat(3KSTAT) interface has the information you are
looking for. Try running kstat at the command line and
in there you will find physmem and freemem under module:unix, class:pages.
Note that free memory pages on Solaris is not the most
useful statistic due to caching on the system.
There is some sample kstat code on access1.sun.com.

How to check how much free ram in E72?

I've heard so many discussion saying about the free ram? how can i check the free ram during the use of the mobile?
Please help...

I am a e72 user, and yes, the ram sucks. In matter of fact, all my posts for the e72 is more concerned on the free ram available.
Anyway, use the following software called Taskman:
http://www.smartphoneware.com/taskman-for-s60-3rd-edition-product.php
It is a trial version, but nevertheless you will see how much free ram the phone has.
Now all i can do is just sit and wait and perhaps a miracle can happen where a future firmware can somewhat free some RAM (very unlikely).

Paging out despite "free" RAM

Today I was capturing HD video from my camera to iMovie when I noticed that my computer was "paging out." I was under the impression that if I had sufficient RAM that my computer would not need to page out. Here is the data from iStat pro:
Wired: 470 MB
Active: 661 MB
Inactive: 111 MB
Free: 3.79 GB
Swap: 15 MB/64 MB
Page ins: 68409
Page outs: 80
If I have 3.79 GB of free memory, why would it page out?

No, that's not correct. The OS constantly pages data to and from VM. Here's some relevant reading material that should help you better understand memory management:
About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
Understanding top output in the Terminal
The amount of available RAM for applications is the sum of Free RAM and Inactive RAM. This will change as applications are opened and closed or change from active to inactive status. The Swap figure represents an estimate of the total amount of swap space required for VM if used, but does not necessarily indicate the actual size of the existing swap file. If you are really in need of more RAM that would be indicated by how frequently the system uses VM. If you open the Terminal and run the top command at the prompt you will find information reported on Pageins () and Pageouts (). Pageouts () is the important figure. If the value in the parentheses is 0 (zero) then OS X is not making instantaneous use of VM which means you have adequate physical RAM for the system with the applications you have loaded. If the figure in parentheses is running positive and your hard drive is constantly being used (thrashing) then you need more physical RAM.

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