I have just realized that i got 5 gb ram on usage even if there is nothing opened in my mac .It makes no sense and i have just needed to ask this usage's reason . And if it's normal or not ? And how i can be able to handle it myself?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.3
If it gets into the yellow open activity monitor and look at all activities to see which are heavily using RAM. The MacOS manages RAM very well. You bought and paid for 8GB RAM, you should be using 8GB RAM. RAM is dynamic and it stores data that the system anticipates you need quick access to. If RAM was not being used it would not be doing its job. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. The more used the better performance you will see. If you bought 32GB RAM you would see a similar percentage of your RAM being used (maybe 24 GB) while doing the same as you are doing now.
If it gets into the yellow open activity monitor and look at all activities to see which are heavily using RAM. The MacOS manages RAM very well. You bought and paid for 8GB RAM, you should be using 8GB RAM. RAM is dynamic and it stores data that the system anticipates you need quick access to. If RAM was not being used it would not be doing its job. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. The more used the better performance you will see. If you bought 32GB RAM you would see a similar percentage of your RAM being used (maybe 24 GB) while doing the same as you are doing now.
Really appreciate it for informing me with precious details
Note: It's GB, gb.
GB=giga bytes
gb=gram bits
Why would you not want to use RAM? Unused RAM is wasted RAM. RAM is a temporary storage where often used or recently used data is stored for quick access. If it was not used your computing experience would be much slower.
As long as the memory pressure remains in the green there is no issue.
First of all, thank you for informing me and answering my questions. But it does not remain on green all the time and gets yellower. By the way, i had asked this question because it was always 2 or 3 GB on usage a while ago and suddenly it turns out to be like 5 or even much more than that . So that i had needed to ask about what may have been the reason?
This is normal. Mine has similar (4-5) usage and nothing running in the foreground but I always show green. Not to worry.
High ram usage
