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My MBP is idling at 30% RAM used.... is this normal?

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Nov 15, 2008
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I swear it never used to be that high. I am like missing frames on youtube videos and having VLC skip and stuff when i run them. Here is a screen shot of my activity monitor with nothing open except activity monitor and grab. I have no idea what i am looking at so help would be appreciated.

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Well let me be the first one to point out the red apps that are not responding are sure not helping.
 
I don't know all that much to your question but I feel that at times- all my memory is used and I get the beachball for a few seconds and I'm not doing anything much. I'm just going to upgrade to 4GB. I thought I wouldn't need it but I guess 2GB is pretty minimal at times.
 
reallynotnick said:
Well let me be the first one to point out the red apps that are not responding are sure not helping.
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Also, YouTube and VLC aren't major memory users, but rather processor intensive apps. A busy CPU is at fault.

Install iStat to see your memory and CPU usage in realtime.
 
Yeah one of those non responsive apps is connected to itunes and i think it was just shutting down. I have iStat menus installed and my CPU usage barely goes above 30%. However right now i only have safari (3 forum tabs with no flash or anything), itunes and vuze open and i am sitting on 66% ram used
 
Did you factor in the 256MB of graphics memory that is set aside if you aren't using a dedicated video card?
Nevermind, your MBP only has a dedicated card.

Have you tried resetting the PRAM?
 
geoffreak said:
Did you factor in the 256MB of graphics memory that is set aside if you aren't using a dedicated video card?
Nevermind, your MBP only has a dedicated card.

Have you tried resetting the PRAM?
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It has two cards? If its the 2.53ghz from feburary, it should have two cards.
 
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