rMBP High memory usage at idle

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  1. mikemullinax, Aug 20, 2012

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    I've noticed that at idle my rMBP is using about 3GB of memory. Is this normal for this model? I'm coming from a 13" MBP with only 4GB of RAM so this seems quite excessive. Any suggestions?

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  2. rrm998, Aug 20, 2012

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    That's what I've seen as well. I've actually seen as much as 4GB in use with no programs open. I assume that some background processes or memory cache was responsible.

    I'm coming from Windows 7 where I've almost never seen more than 4GB in use at one time -- so 8GB seemed like plenty for this rMPB. I can certainly see why anyone who uses virtual machines would want the 16GB.
     
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  3. MagicBoy, Aug 20, 2012

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    It's not a problem. If another process needs the memory, OS X will free it up.
     
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