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High Ram Usage With No Applications Open on rMBP
- Thread starter granny shifter
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Follow every step of the following instructions precisely. Do not skip any steps.
- Launch Activity Monitor
- Change "My Processes" at the top to "All Processes"
- Click on the "% CPU" column heading once or twice, so the arrow points downward (highest values on top).
(If that column isn't visible, right-click on the column headings and check it, NOT "CPU Time") - Click on the System Memory tab at the bottom.
- Take a screen shot of the entire Activity Monitor window, then scroll down to see the rest of the list, take another screen shot
- Post your screenshots.
That accounts for the roughly 3.14GB of RAM in use. It looks perfectly normal.
I guess I'm not accustomed to this much ram usage. My previous machine with Lion consumed a lot less.
The only thing you need to watch for is page outs, which indicate you're maxing out your RAM. OS X will use whatever RAM is available... that's what it's there for.