My previous post showed that my mini on El Capitan was using 3.6GB of ram freshly booted. I rebooted it a few times & it was the same.
But then I changed some things:
I had had two external hard drives connected before (that had already been indexed) so I dismounted them & unplugged their cables since I was suspicious of Spotlight. I also then turned off all notifications- all of them in the Notifications settings.
Now my mini is using 1.41GB of RAM at idle with nothing launched and nothing compressed.
Just regained 2.2 GB of RAM.
But then I changed some things:
I had had two external hard drives connected before (that had already been indexed) so I dismounted them & unplugged their cables since I was suspicious of Spotlight. I also then turned off all notifications- all of them in the Notifications settings.
Now my mini is using 1.41GB of RAM at idle with nothing launched and nothing compressed.
Just regained 2.2 GB of RAM.
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