But your memory pressure is green, not yellow or red.
It means the system perfectly serve your memory needs.
Q: What does memory pressure mean in macOS's activity monitor?
A: Its a way to see the demand on RAM (memory)
- macOS uses a new, more efficient way to manage RAM
- It includes and goes well beyond the simple memory compression that Windows and Linux do
- macOS can do more with significantly less RAM because macOS has been modernized to focus on lowering memory usage to reduce RAM requirements
- That means that the old ways to look at memory usage do not work on macOS
- Apple’s new method to disclose the demand on RAM is to use a complex approach that calculates “Memory Pressure”
- Memory Pressure tells you that how stressed the RAM is, so when memory Memory Pressure is low, green, then your system will perform normally as expected
- When Memory Pressure is yellow then your system will still behave normally but it give you advance notice that if you add more workload, similar to what you are already doing then you could go into the Red zone
- When Memory Pressure is Red, then it is telling you that you may notice some sluggishness because the memory system is completely occupied
- It is not a big problem if the system goes yellow or reed for short periods of time, in fact, you might not even notice any effect at all