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Originally Posted by WanderingKnight
Allow me to make a short offtopic question:
What the hell is "inactive RAM"? Is it some sort of OS X-esque version of the good ol' cache?
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Inactive RAM is where stuff that would go in the cache goes unless another program needs the physical memory, at which point it's put in cache instead. Unfortunately, it seems mplayer has a pretty bad leak here and does it in such a manner that other apps can't take the physical memory space being used as "inactive RAM." This webpage might help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342