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Java Memory Hog
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MisterMe
macrumors G4
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.
This does not help me much. I am having an issue with EVERYTHING being extremely bogged down on my Mac. Once I reboot and there is more free memory everything is snappy again (something I thought I got away from when I ditched Windows!)
It is not normal for me to experience the "spinning beach ball" and an app sitting in the dock bouncing up and down while it waits to open. I have an SSD and everything is usually pretty much instantaneous.
It is not normal for me to experience the "spinning beach ball" and an app sitting in the dock bouncing up and down while it waits to open. I have an SSD and everything is usually pretty much instantaneous.
MisterMe
macrumors G4
In my post above, I said that your OS tries to use all available physical RAM. However, you have ample RAM that is not allocated to any particular task. The fact that you have a lot of RAM allocated to Java should not be an issue. What is an issue, however, is that Java is running in the first place. Java does not run unless you have one or more Java-based applications running. The most popular Java-based applications that I know are Bittorrent clients. Are you running a Bittorrent client?
No, I am not. The only thing I can think of is that I run Crashplan, which I believe is java based. Even when it is not active java remains.