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per this person's device, evidence that you may need to purge would be having greater than half of your memory listed as Inactive:
Disk Utility
Somewhere along the line I found a suggestion that clears out that inactive memory problem. Seems every morning my inactive memory is a huge chunk of total memory.
Disk Utility
I doubt Disk Utility is doing anything directly to memory. More likely, it's using a bunch of memory, which causes things to get flushed out. ---
EMOJO: mojo no longer workin'
Disk Utility
'mds' can and does grow extremely large, memory wise. As Spotlight indexes files the files are opened.
You can also create a simple file like this
save it as 'purge.command' someplace, click on the spotlight search, type 'purge.command' followed by a return, an poof, command runs in terminal.
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