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Apr 9, 2012

I just experienced something totally weird on my Snow Leopard. It starts suddenly dropping in the free memory (green) in my activity monitor with around 10 MB per second and the inactive (purple) memory grows. And it doesn't stop until it hits 10 free MB.

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Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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