FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

[Wojciech Puchar]

>
> "2) Inactive memory (which is memory that has been recently used but is no
> longer) is supposed to be seamlessly reclaimed automatically by the OS when
> needed for new programs. In practice, I?ve found that this isn?t the case, and
> my system slows to a crawl and starts paging out to disk when free memory drops
> to zero, even as half of the available RAM (which is a lot) is marked as
> inactive. ..."
>
> Well, this is not a case of a "BSD is dying" troll (you can safely ignore
> those).
>
yes it is, just search a bit to know what "inactive" memory in FreeBSD is.