High RAM Usage.

[goneeuro02]

Any idea why my m1 macbook pro would be using 8.5gb of RAM after a reboot. I gave it time to settle down after the reboot also.

MacOS 13.5.2

 

[Queen6]

Is pretty much Infront of you. The apps your installing are eating through the RAM. My own base 2020 13" MBP is sitting at 5.4GB with much of that being cache. I'm mindful of what works best on a basic Mac.

TBH as memory pressure is low you have nothing to worry about.

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[goneeuro02]

Is pretty much Infront of you. The apps your installing are eating through the RAM. My own base 2020 13" MBP is sitting at 5.4GB with much of that being cache. I'm mindful of what works best on a basic Mac.

TBH as memory pressure is low you have nothing to worry about.

Q-6

I was just curious as mine used to be around 5ish too. I haven’t installed anything new and have been having a kernel panic that reboots my Mac lately. I thought maybe there was an issue with an update or something. I know Sonoma comes out soon as devs got the RC this week. I’ll see what changes after the update. Maybe even do a fresh install. I appreciate the insight though.

 

[Queen6]

Boot into Recovery and reload the OS, shouldn't be having kennel panics on such a well developed Mac. But be mindful of third party start up apps as they too can potentially interfere...

On latest stable OS 13.5.2 Hard money is on one of your 3rd party apps playing up as my 13" 2020 is 100% stable.

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[chabig]

I was just curious...

It's ok to be curious. Beyond that, don't worry about it. Let the operating system manage RAM.

 

[Ben J.]

I think you should not worry. The Act.Mon. info that is really important are:

Memory pressure. Yellow and green means no worries.

Wired memory, 1.52GB: The amount of "absolute" memory used by system and apps. (The 'App Memory' is memory that is in use, but can be released if needed.) So, you could in effect have had 4GB RAM on your MBP, and you'd still be OK. I'm pretty sure if you summed up the whole memory column of your running processes, you'd get… 1.52GB.

Swap used, 0: Means it has not been necessary, since last boot, to use the internal drive to lighten any overload of the memory.)

Macs use memory when it's available, that's maybe the reason you mentioned seeing lower numbers on a previous mac. I'm guessing that was a 8GB configuration. If you had 32GB, you would have seen a even higher 'Memory used' number with the same stuff running.