how much Ram does your M1 Mac Mini use at startup?

[echomango]

I love this M1 Mini but have noticed that about 5 gb of my 16 gb ram gets gobbled up at startup. Granted probably a chunk of that is the Adobe creative cloud ram guzzlers. I forgot to check it before installing the adobe stuff.

Can other Mini M1 users post what amounts of ram are used at startup prior to opening any programs? I am wondering if the 16 GB version behaves differently. If the 8 GB version used up 5 gb at startup that sure wouldn't leave much for later.

Thanks for any responses.

 

[strat59uk]

I've got the 8GB M1 Mini and here's what my memory looks like at startup:

I've got a few things that start automatically: 1Password mini, Snagit (screen capture util), etc. But that accounts for no more than approx 100 MB.

 

[ChrisA]

I love this M1 Mini but have noticed that about 5 gb of my 16 gb ram gets gobbled up at startup. ....

If the OS is doing its job then it finds some use for EVERY BIT OF RAM.

Unused RAM is a waste of resources and the OS tries not to let that happen. Notice that at the very least RAM can always be used to cache files.