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memory usage

  1. J

    WindowServer using serious amount of memory

    WindowServer is using a massive amount of memory, kernel_task is also using quite a bit though that might be on purpose. I was just streaming a video on youtube (about 1h of 1080p) so I don't know whether that has something to do with it. I noticed some lag but it disappeared when I closed the...
  2. S

    memory usage quicky shown as over 90%

    Hi My late 2008 24 inch iMac, with 6gb of memory quickly goes to 95% memory usage even though I only have Firefox open with a couple of tabs open and browsing This mystifies me , the machine slows down to a crawl at the same time ,I don't know if its linked but it takes ages to boot up and takes...
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