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Running only two applications and its using almost 4gb of RAM

fstigre

fstigre

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Aug 12, 2008
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Hi,

I'm a little impressed with the memory usage in my MacBook. I'm currently having problems running Adobe Lightroom, it runs too slow and I decided to go and check my Activity Monitor and I'm impressed how little memory I have left after running Lightroom, it shows 389.24MB as free system memory out of 4gb, and I'm only running Lightroom and Firefox.

Is this normal?

Is there some sort of maintenance that I should be doing in a regular bases to my mac?

I'm currntly using MacJanitor for maintenace puposes?

Is there a tool (application) that I could use to improve performance in a mac?


http://tu-design.com/Images/activityMonitor.jpg

Thanks
 
I don't think you're reading the numbers correctly. The inactive memory isn't being used and will be refilled as necessary. Now, it does look like the swap file has been used, but only a tiny amount (3.46MB of swap ins). So it doesn't really look like memory is your limiting factor right now....
 
IIRC, the "inactive" RAM can be considered free.

It's sort of like RAM that was used by a program, but isn't anymore...but is acting like a cache....sort of. If you run out of "free" memory the system should start digging in to that "inactive" catagory.

Either way, I'd consider that 1.5-1.6GB free.

Edit: Darnit, mkrishnan got in his response first! :p
 
So you think 4GB is not enough? It is actually the max I can have.
 
fstigre said:
So you think 4GB is not enough? It is actually the max I can have.
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Did you read any of the above posts? No, we both said we did not think your memory was the issue, because you aren't running out of memory, because you didn't read the memory information in the profiler correctly....

The Guide explains how to determine when you need more memory, which by extension, also addresses when you do not need more memory.
 
Thanks!

Now, is there a program that I could use to maintain my Mac running smooth (as of today).
 
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