Finding source of leaking active memory on Mac OS Lion
- by Tim Kemp
My activity monitor shows 6GB of active RAM usage:
Yet my Real Memory column shows nothing like that amount:
(There's another screenful below that, all smaller.)
Backing that up, the output from this command (which sums up memory usage of every running process):
ps -axm -o "rss,comm" | awk 'BEGIN { s=0;}; {s=s+$1;}; END { printf("%.2f…