You have a fundamental misunderstanding of your memory. The 8 GB is your installed physical RAM. OS X is not Windows 95 or System 7. OS X is certified UNIX 03. Its virtual memory system is designed to consume all available physical RAM. Free RAM is wasted RAM. The fact that your RAM is consumed by your Java Virtual Machine is of no particular consequence. If the tasks consuming the RAM are inactive, then the OS reallocates the physical RAM to tasks that need it.Can anybody tell me why Java is consistently using over 1 GB of memory on my Macbook Pro?
I am at a loss as to figure out why it is doing this. I have attached a picture of memory usage. I have 702 MB free out of 8 GB!
Any suggestions would be helpful.