Open apps are hogging memory - 8 core mac pro

[valdore]

As you can see in the attachment, the apps I'm running aren't that big of a deal for the most part. This is a 2007 version 8-core Mac Pro, 8 GB RAM. I'm curious what happens to make the apps open bog down the computer like this? Just leaving everything running for days at a time?

 

[Lord Zedd]

Dude, they are Adobe products. They are and always have been resource hogs. They are using 1.1% of your CPU, if you need the ram space either close one of them or get more ram.

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

Doesn't look like you have 8GB. The yellow section should be 1/4 but it looks like its taking almost 80 percent. But Adobe apps do use alot of resources.

 

[valdore]

Yes, but why are the Finder, Firefox, and iTunes all taking up over a Gig each also?

 

[Lord Zedd]

That is Virtual memory, hard drive memory. Those three are using 38mb, 48mb and 146mb of real memory.

 

[robbieduncan]

Yes, but why are the Finder, Firefox, and iTunes all taking up over a Gig each also?

They aren't. VSize is not the amount of RAM they are using. RSize is.

That is Virtual memory, hard drive memory. Those three are using 38mb, 48mb and 146mb of real memory.

Not really. It's the size of their virtual process space. Adding up all the vsizes will certainly not tell you the amount of virtual memory in use (as checkable by the swapfile files in /varvm). For example I currently have under 1Gb of swapfile total in use:

MacBook-Pro:vm robbie$ du -h swapfile*
64M swapfile0
64M swapfile1
128M swapfile2
256M swapfile3
512M swapfile4

But I have 10 processes with a Vsize of over 1000Mb. I only have 2Gb of RAM this we can see that vsize is directly related to memory use at all as it includes shared memory, memory mapped files etc.

 

[Greyelm]

iFreeMem is good a freeing up memory

http://www.activata.co.uk/ifreemem/