Problems with running Repair Permissions

Question

ok,
everytime my powerbook stays on for a while (maybe 1 to 2 days without reboot), my mac slows down. When I look at my iStat Pro, I see almost all my memory in the "inactive" status and under CPU, a high percentage is under "user".
I run repair permissions in the disk utility and this frees almost all the memory from the "inactive" status to "free" and my mac goes a whole lot faster.
my problem is that i get the exact same permissions repair all the time. It says:
"Determining correct file permissions.
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log"
is there some way to fix this problem so that i don't have to run a permissions repair all the time??
thanks for any help.

Answer 1

It's just a log file. Don't worry about it.
Using Repair Disk to "free" memory is a waste of time. Your computer's total available RAM is always the sum of "Inactive" RAM and "Free" RAM. It may be useful for you to read Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor.
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