Any better way to purge the inactive memory?

Question

Running purge command in the terminal to free the inactive memory isn't really what I think about Apple.

Lion isn't doing a great at all when it comes to free the inactive memory.
Free memory is reaching 16 MB and applications and the OS are becoming unresponsive, yet OS X isn't reclaiming the inactive memory.

After each session, I put the laptop to sleep. You can say that I shutdown my OS once a month. Unixes after all aren't created to be rebooted.

OS X Snow Leopard was pretty sleek, I don't know but it looks it is a Lion thing (maybe due iOS brought to Lion features).

Any better way to reclaim the inactive memory on Lion?
[EDIT]
I got 4 GB of RAM

Answer 1

Yes, you can, one command only (run in Terminal):

purge

And recheck inactive RAM

Answer 2

Probably not much better than what you are doing but I use iboostup occasionally when i wan t to free up some memory. I constantly struggling here with 2gb MBA and i use vmaware fusion for windows machine that just takes the memory from me. It has a couple other nice features too.

http://www.iboostup.com/

Answer 3

There are free apps on the Mac App Store that add a free-memory button to the menu bar for quick memory purging.

Search for "memory" in the MAS and choose what suits your needs.

Hope this is what you are looking for.