RAM help?

[JacobUlts]

Hey guys

So I just found what is slowing down my computer.
As you can see, it's not very good. Almost all of my ram is being used, and that is just after booting the computer.

Anyway, I was hoping to possibly find some help on this. I'm not sure if you guys need more info or anything.

Thanks in advance :3

 

[crjackson2134]

If you an upgrade your memory that would be good. You already knew that though, and I suspect that's why you aren't getting many replies.

I'm guessing you are on a laptop and upgrading might be a problem. If you don't have an SSD for booting the OS, that may give you considerable relief.

Sorry if I was unhelpful, just wanted you to know that people did read your post.

Good Luck,

CJ

 

[yjchua95]

Hey guys

So I just found what is slowing down my computer.
As you can see, it's not very good. Almost all of my ram is being used, and that is just after booting the computer.

Anyway, I was hoping to possibly find some help on this. I'm not sure if you guys need more info or anything.

Thanks in advance :3

Your RAM is perfectly fine.

Free RAM is wasted RAM. Mavericks functioning normally will use as much RAM as possible for caching, etc.

What you need is an SSD.

 

[GGJstudios]

As you can see, it's not very good. Almost all of my ram is being used, and that is just after booting the computer.

It is quite normal for all of your memory to be in use by OS X. It does not mean that you are running out of memory or that it is maxed out. OS X will manage all available memory, making it available to apps on an as-needed basis. Refer to the following Apple support article for more information on how to understand your Activity Monitor readings.

OS X Mavericks: About Activity Monitor​

The combination of Free, Wired, Active, Inactive & Used memory statistics in previous versions of Activity Monitor have been replaced in Mavericks with an easy to read "Memory Pressure" graph.
Memory pressure is indicated by color:

• Green – RAM memory resources are available.
• Amber – RAM memory resources are being tasked.
• Red – RAM memory resources are depleted and OS X is using the drive for memory.

 

[DeltaMac]

You can get more helpful responses, if you tell us exactly which Mac you have.

 

[GGJstudios]

You can get more helpful responses, if you tell us exactly which Mac you have.

Generally speaking it is good to provide more information about the Mac being used, OS X version, etc. However, in this case it doesn't matter which Mac model it is. There is plenty of RAM available. The OP just doesn't know how to read the new memory pressure readings in Activity Monitor.

 

[DeltaMac]

I fully agree, but the OP did say that the system was slowing down, which may mean that OP should provide a similar Activity Monitor screen shot when the slow down is actually happening.
Then, an idea that a RAM upgrade might help, or some other plan, can best be offered if we know which Mac, etc.

 

[GGJstudios]

I fully agree, but the OP did say that the system was slowing down, which may mean that OP should provide a similar Activity Monitor screen shot when the slow down is actually happening.
Then, an idea that a RAM upgrade might help, or some other plan, can best be offered if we know which Mac, etc.

I completely agree. The OP should provide a shot of Activity Monitor with the CPU tab sorted in descending order by % CPU usage, since the problem obviously isn't a memory issue.

 

[h9826790]

Your RAM actually speeds up your computer but not slows it down. 1.93G of them was using as cache, which is for speed up, and may be use by system or any application when required.

Furthermore, the swap is 0, memory pressure is green, there is just nothing wrong about the RAM usage.

Your system's slow down should be caused by other reason, but not running out of RAM.

 

[JacobUlts]

Thanks for the helpful replies everyone!

I just updated to Mavericks from Snow Leopard, so I guess I made a noob move by getting scared over this.

Thanks again!