Kernel_task using most memory on MacBook Pro

[Gara_kons]

Hello everyone as the title says , on activity monitor , kernel_task uses the most memory and since I'm new to the Mac world I don't know if I should be worried or not. When I opened the Mac for the first time it was the same but I wanted to reinstall Mac OS X on my own so that temporarily "fixed" it. I will attach a file also to see for yourselves. Should I be worried or its just the kernel doing some paging and stuff?
My specs are : MacBook Pro 13" TB 2017 with 16 GB of Ram.

 

[maflynn]

I don't know if I should be worried or not.

You don't need to worry.

Look below in the activity monitor and see if the Memory Pressure is green and/or wired memory. In macOS, free memory is wasted memory, I know coming from Windows, its a bit different but macOS is really impressive with its memory management.

 

[Gara_kons]

You don't need to worry.

Look below in the activity monitor and see if the Memory Pressure is green and/or wired memory. In macOS, free memory is wasted memory, I know coming from Windows, its a bit different but macOS is really impressive with its memory management.

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Memory pressure is green and the wired memory is always below 2 GB. So I guess no worries. Thanks !

 

[maflynn]

So I guess no worries. Thanks !

Yup, 16GB can even be considered over-kill for most day to day tasks, I don't know what you're doing on it, but 16GB is going to be more then enough for the foreseeable future and your numbers are showing that.

 

[Gara_kons]

Found a discount on this specific built and went for it as it suits me for my future proofing.