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Big RAM issue with macBook Pro and OSX Montain Lion

Hello Everyone,

I'm using a MacBook Pro 15" (early '11) and I've got serious Memory issues.

I've installed 16GB of RAM in my computer, and believed it will solve the problem, but no!!

Even when I am only using Outlook, VMWare, Safari, the OS tells me that I'm using the whole memory (see picture below). I tried to use 'Free memory' thinking it will handle it a little better.

I know there is a lot of inactive memory and then usable, but I did nothing to use this memory, so I would like to understand why it using swap file and all that memory. I would like to use several virtual machine at the same time, but when I try to do so, my computer is very, very slow and I can not do anything.

Thank you for your help.

Arnaud

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 5, 2013 10:19 AM

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Oct 23, 2014 5:18 PM in response to Csound1

I have bought my first MacBook Pro 15" with Retina display 16Gb of RAM. And I am really facing serious issues (disappointed).

At first it had Maverics, I was only using Safari and Google Chrome, and the MacPro runs out of Application Memory every other day. Nowadays I use an app called Memory Diag to monitor the memory and avoid crashes on my Mac, this is really annoying because I expected that the OS should handle this automatically. Does anyone have any other tip?

Big RAM issue with macBook Pro and OSX Montain Lion

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