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DESCRIPTION
iFreeMem... Free system memory for better application performance. A quick and easy alternative to either a reboot or RAM upgrade to get defragmented free memory.
If you are in the middle of using an application and the system becomes unresponsive for several seconds it could be the memory manager organising free memory for your application to use. IFreeMem clears Inactive memory to help your applications avoid the performance hit you get when running low on Free memory. You could think of it like a RAM upgrade.
Especially useful for users of memory hungry applications, i.e.:
- Musicians
- DJ's
- Graphic Designers
- Final Cut Pro users
- Photographers
- Scientists
- Parallels Desktop users
Rejuvenates old Machines and optimizes new machines.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.5a:
- Snow Leopard compatibility.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
| SCREENSHOT
| Developer: | Activata |
| Downloads: | 29,625 |
| - Version d/l: | 1,079 |
| Utilities: | System |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 12 Dec 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $16.25 |
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| iFreeMem User Reviews (39 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 24 2009 |
WAYLAND CHIN the "purge" command that comes free when you install the Mac OS X Developer Tools clears out the inactive memory too. and it's free.
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 | Nov 2 2009 |
ZX Which app is it?
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| Nov 5 2009 |
WAYLAND CHIN open terminal and type "purge" if the purge command is not there, then you need to download apple's developer tools.
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| Nov 10 2009 |
DABAN1 Thanks. Been looking for something free since work switched to OSX. purge does just what I need without the reboot. iFreeMem worked nicely when I trialled it, but needed a free solution for work.
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 | Oct 23 2009 |
TRONDAH This app should be renamed to "File cache cleaner", and it's feature list should read "makes your system slower by not using RAM".
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| Jul 30 2008 |
GERWINPHILIPPO "Defragment memory" ? That must surely be a joke?! That's just proposterous! Fragmentation is a mechanical phenomenon that cannot, by definition, occur in memory. This is definitely snake oil. You must be a fool to actually pay for this rubbish.
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| May 13 2009 |
ROB.H With respect, memory fragmentation is NOT just a mechanical phenomenon. Any system whereby resources are allocated and then de-allocated as required could potentially suffer from fragmentation. There's an article by Apple about memory fragmentation here - http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21681?viewlocale=en_US The other thing is, iFreeMem is free, so no-one is asking you to pay for anything.
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| May 13 2009 |
GERWINPHILIPPO That article is about OS9, is from 2000, and is completely irrelevant to the memory usage of a Unix system. I don't know how you managed to digg up this dinosaur of an article, but it is as relevant to OSX as is an article about steam engines. A Unix system manages the memory allocation for it's applications, and fragmentation is a meaningless concept in this respect. Also, this program is shareware, so you can pay for it, and I mentioned you must be a fool to do so.
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| Nov 2 2009 |
ZX 3.5 not working under 10.6
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| Oct 30 2009 |
ERIC WOEHLER Seems to work by dumping RAM contents to swap files. I ran this and now I have 6 swap files where before I had just the one! So the trade off is less RAM used but with more and slower swap files - can't see the benefit!!
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| Oct 24 2009 |
ZO219 Sorry, guys, this handy little app frees up active memory (using MenuMeters as my gauge) and the result is not to slow things down, but, duh, Safari for example runs faster. I don't care if it's emptying file caches or whatever your various theories are, I am not imagining the app speed increase that results from running iFreeMem.
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| Dec 15 2009 |
SVF Thank you Wayland Chin! So they are getting $18 to put a GUI on the purge command? Nice racket if you can get it. There's a sucker born every minute!
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| Sep 13 2009 |
HELMERS The application works with a fairly basic concept: Force the system to load a large chunk of mumbo-jumbo, then release it. I tried this in a "perfect scenario". My MacBook had spent the night copying files, and all the normally "free" memory was marked as "inactive". After pressing the optimize button I got it all back. As some say, this is not very difficult to do, and normally OSX does a great job of managing memory. It is also not a substitute for having sufficient memory, as iFreeMem does not magically create memory, it simply forces the system to empty all its buffers.
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| Aug 22 2008 |
EASER I honestly wonder if this works. I ran VMfusion, which ate up pretty much all of my remaining memory. After I quit, I ran iFreeMem. Although the graph visually says I "recovered" a lot of memory, my computer still ran about as sluggish as it did right after I quite VMfusion. It most certainly did not run as fast as it would if I restarted.
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| May 13 2009 |
GERWINPHILIPPO Basically, what this program does, is that it allocates a large block of memory. This forces OSX to release memory that is used for file caching. File caching speeds up your system, because files that are in memory are retrieved much faster than when they are on disk. After that, the program releases this block again. The result is, that more free memory shows up. However, now that all file caching is gone, all this has to be taken from the harddisk again, so it slows your system down.
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| Jun 9 2008 |
FOULGER Sure there are plenty of Applications/Utilities that do the same thing and one can enter a unix command & also optimise RAM but ifreemem is in the menubar, memory use can be seen and clicking on optimise takes just a small amount of time. For me that saves money each time I use it. The author has offered it for sale, if you like it then pay for it, if you don't then use something else. Its just so convenient and can be used with very little waste of time. As a codicil, I would, however exhort my oft used advice "Halve the price & triple the profit"
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