Activity Monitor does the same but only if you have the main window open, which is kind of distracting in everyday use.Īctivity Monitor’s icon, on the other hand (displaying memory allocation as a pie-chart in the dock) was a good compromise and but it’s not so much an essential addition now.
As well as that, another feature we really like about memory Cleaner is the realtime readout of free memory. With all the previously mentioned apps open, though minimized as appropriate to our workflow at the time, we ran Memory Cleaner to see how efficiently Snow Leopard was handling the memory allocation.Īs you can see from the above grab, Memory Cleaner recovered 1.1GB at a stroke, which is impressive (especially so in percentage terms).
