Resolved RAM Usage

[tweek1]

Can someone let me know if my RAM usage is okay? I have nearly 7GB of RAM taken up with only Safari, Mail, and Activity Monitor running. This seems excessive to me.

Screenshot of Activity Monitor: http://i.imgur.com/apYrsjp.png

I have a 2014 MBA w/ 8GB RAM and the i5 processor. I am running Yosemite Public Beta 2.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Small White Car]

You want to watch the swap. Yours seems pretty low so I'd say there's not a big problem here.

 

[leman]

It looks perfectly fine. Your system is currently around 5GB RAM (because it can) and the memory pressure is green, which means that there is no starving for RAM. The memory pressure is the most important indicator. As long as its green, nothing else matters.

 

[tweek1]

It looks perfectly fine. Your system is currently around 5GB RAM (because it can) and the memory pressure is green, which means that there is no starving for RAM. The memory pressure is the most important indicator. As long as its green, nothing else matters.

So it isn't like if I only had 4gb RAM I wouldn't be able to run all of this stuff, but that since I have extra RAM the system uses it?

 

[DeltaMac]

Exactly right.
If you give your OS X system more RAM, it will use it.

It's just something that you don't need to be concerned about - unless:
your memory pressure goes from yellow into red, or
you see a lot a swapping going on, or
you experience dramatic drops in performance.
Those three items might all likely happen together.

Otherwise - use your Mac, be happy…

 

[tweek1]

Exactly right.
If you give your OS X system more RAM, it will use it.

It's just something that you don't need to be concerned about - unless:
your memory pressure goes from yellow into red, or
you see a lot a swapping going on, or
you experience dramatic drops in performance.
Those three items might all likely happen together.

Otherwise - use your Mac, be happy…

Awesome, thank you!

 

[leman]

So it isn't like if I only had 4gb RAM I wouldn't be able to run all of this stuff, but that since I have extra RAM the system uses it?

Well, it would be interesting to test this out I suspect that the RAM usage will be lower on a 4GB machine, maybe at a expense of a very slight reduction in responsivity.

If you are curious about the details, try running the command vm_stat in the Terminal. OS X RAM management (which is inherited from FreeBSD) is insanely complicated.