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seth556

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I have 4gb of ram on my Mac Mini and the past few days it Yosemite seems to be using more memory than ever. Anyone else experiencing this?
 

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It's slow typing this message. I finished typing that sentence and it was just starting to display the t in typing. So I don't think it's very efficient right now.
 
It's a little better after a reboot but still gets bad. CPU usage seems normal.
 

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GM hasn't improved memory usage much, if at all.

If you consistently run more than a handful of apps and/or have many tabs open, you better have 8GB or more to run Yosemite comfortably.
 
memory usage in yosemite is too high.. without any apps open i quickly reach 330 mb of compressed memory and I have 8 GB RAM...
 
Using iMessage, Safari, Outlook, Excel other productivity tools for work, I"m sitting at 6.5GB free RAM (840MB used).
 
isn't OS X supposed to use all of the RAM available and then apportion it between active applications as needed? that's how it's been since at least 10.6 for me (when I first moved to Mac). I've always had 8-16GB and all of it is always 'used' within an hour of boot
 
Shawzborne said:
It's designed that way it allocates the ram to allow it to run more efficiently
Click to expand...

What he ^ said...

Your still in the green. Look up Mavericks and Yosemite memory management doing a google search. It will explain this. Its normal now...This question has been posted a number of times
 
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