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This information is in RAM but isn't actively being used, though it was recently used. For example, if you've been using Mail and then quit it, the RAM that Mail was using is marked as Inactive memory. Inactive memory is available for use by another application, just like free memory. However, if you open Mail before its Inactive memory is used by a different application, Mail will open quicker because its Inactive memory is converted to active memory, instead of loading it from the slower drive. Grabbed from apple support

 

So in short DON'T worry, it is normal. Nothing is wrong.

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I have been using my MacBook Pro Mid-2015 15" Retina for over a year now,

and I found out that what is with the "inactive" memory?

Every once in a while the system reports to have 20MB of RAM left out of 16GB of RAM, what's going on?

 

Usually I found myself having a GB or two inactive...

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This information is in RAM but isn't actively being used, though it was recently used. For example, if you've been using Mail and then quit it, the RAM that Mail was using is marked as Inactive memory. Inactive memory is available for use by another application, just like free memory. However, if you open Mail before its Inactive memory is used by a different application, Mail will open quicker because its Inactive memory is converted to active memory, instead of loading it from the slower drive. Grabbed from apple support

 

So in short DON'T worry, it is normal. Nothing is wrong.

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21st night of September?
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While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember how the stars stole the night away

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