Sudden Increase in Memory Usage

[bingefeller]

Hey guys, can someone tell me if loading a big video on youtube would have caused my memory usage to shoot up like this (see picture).

The only programmes I was running at the time were Firefox and iTunes, all of a sudden my fans kicked in a full tilt and I saw that my active memory had increased.

I'm curious to know why this happens as it's happened once before in the past, although I forget what I was doing at the time.

 

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Out of paranoia - you should pull that pic. Its posting your IP info.

Someone smarter than myself could use that and potentially do bad things.

 

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Unrelated to my first post - why does your "processes" section show memory in MB? Mine shows % of CPU workload.

What version of Istat is that?

 

[bingefeller]

Unrelated to my first post - why does your "processes" section show memory in MB? Mine shows % of CPU workload.

What version of Istat is that?

Thanks for the tip off about the IP address thing. I never thought about that.

I use iStat Pro Version 4.1. Under the settings I choose to sort processes by memory usage instead of CPU usage.

 

[mad jew]

Did it soon settle back down? How big was the video? I'm not 100% sure there's anything to worry about, necessarily.

 

[bingefeller]

Did it soon settle back down? How big was the video? I'm not 100% sure there's anything to worry about, necessarily.

Yeah, it settled down again. The video was 27 minutes long and it did settle back. As long as it's nothing to worry about

 

[mad jew]

That's a big film. I reckon that's probably normal.