RAM usage is significantly high with nothing open.

[swindlenz]

http://imgur.com/MArtd80

This is after a restart with nothing open. There are a few lightweight things running like Bartender, FreeSpace, Flux, dropbox etc but nothing one would assume to be terribly RAM consuming. I know the pressure is low, but the usage is nigh on my 8GIG total.

Just optimisation issues? Or is there something I've done?

 

[dinepada]

can you disable Dashboard via Preferences/General and look if ram usage changes

 

[swindlenz]

can you disable Dashboard via Preferences/General and look if ram usage changes

I always have it off, and just tried turing in ON then OFF to see what happens. No change.

 

[GhettoMrBob]

Keep in mind that Mavericks (and therefor Yosemite) will attempt to cache as many things to RAM as it can. This works to help things launch/work faster since they are already cached and don't need to be fetched from the HD/SSD.

If your pressure is low (like yours) and you aren't seeing much compression or swap, I wouldn't really worry about it too much.

Also keep in mind this is still a beta. On one of my machines the usage was around 6.5-7GB (usually what I see in Mavericks as well) and on another machine it was hitting my 8GB limit and starting to compress/swap.

 

[swindlenz]

Keep in mind that Mavericks (and therefor Yosemite) will attempt to cache as many things to RAM as it can. This works to help things launch/work faster since they are already cached and don't need to be fetched from the HD/SSD.

If your pressure is low (like yours) and you aren't seeing much compression or swap, I wouldn't really worry about it too much.

Also keep in mind this is still a beta. On one of my machines the usage was around 6.5-7GB (usually what I see in Mavericks as well) and on another machine it was hitting my 8GB limit and starting to compress/swap.

Yeah, I primarily assumed DP being the core issue in regards to this.

Appreciate the reply. Thanks.