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Hi
Anyone else noticed how Mavericks uses memory ?
I have a new Macbook Air 2013 with 4GB of memory and after a short wile.
The system have used 3.99GB of the total 4GB 😟 Isn't that a big problem. Thats can't be right.
I would think that the computer would suffer greatly after a short time of use and the computer
needs to be restarted. If thats true. The new Mavericks ***** big time on Computers with less
memory. Or is there something i don't know.
Thanks
Mavericks uses memory smarter than previous OS's, not necessarily less memory. Look at the swap memory if that is high then you have a problem. Also, if the mac is still running fast then there isn't a problem.
Honestly no! There's allot of working needed with Mavericks. EFI issues are one. The memory is only the base of the known issues. Allot of people started off with memory issues, such as myself then while Trying to use the Recovery System in Mavericks to solve possible permission issues. I've notice that trying to repair my hard drive I've discovered a EFI issue that's unrepeatable. When I restarted Mac, Finder crashed at start and the spinning ball remained for hours; no dock no wallpaper, nothing but the last window I had open and a spinning ball.
I own a mid 2011 27" iMac i7 3.24ghz,with 8gigs of RAM.
Currently I have only Safari opened (and activity monitor) and I am using 7.99GB with 2.5MB swap used. And my memory pressure is maxed.
Everything is slow and buggy. And launchpad is feeling this RAM use or leak most. Launchpad is unbelievabley buggy. It lags when you enter. it lags when you exit. Swiping between pages in launchpad is met with pauses and more stutter.
I never had these issues in mountain lion. If Mavericks is supposed to utilize RAM better, how could I possibly be experiencing this level of lag? My specs are nothing to sneeze at, and my RAM configuration is more than adequate. So why the lag?
No one can convince me this is normal, and suggest I upgrade my RAM. If I was experiencing this lag only after I had a number of apps going, I might concede. But not simply with just Safari running.
This OS like iOS7 was simply not ready for prime time. My opinion and I am sticking with it.
Here is one for you ... I have 4GB RAM, but Momery Scope claims 5GB ...
When I first download Maverick it was running really slow, now it is beging to run fine and no problems ....
Give it 72 hours!
when i updated im getting very slow to open when system start up & applications takes time open 😟
Exactly the same here! I have 2009 MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM.
It was really hard for me to fill the whole memory up with apps on Mountain Lion, nearly impossible. But on Mavericks I'm running ****** 3 basic apps and the memory is completely full and the computer si SWAPPING ALL THE TIME!!!
Productivity FTW.
I think this is definitely not a feature. There is clearly some serious problem with memory management in Mavericks.
I don't care about the gigs used. I care about performance – and swapping to hard drive with mail, safari and itunes running on 8GB RAM is not "utilizing RAM more efficiently".
It is just broken.
calendaragent hogs memory!
I have an early 2009 24" iMac. After upgrading to Mavericks the Activity Monitor memory pressure went off the charts. Did a clean install, and have been running for a few hours with mostly the apps that come with it.
Still have problems but have noticed a program in Activity Monitor named calendaragent was up in the high 80% of CPU use. I killed the process and it came back with what seems to be normal activity. Everytime an alert goes off it jumps up again and hogs CPU and Memory. Kill it and it returns to normal.
Any one else see this happening?
I did a "Clean Install" and so far the system runs a lot faster and smother.
I did a clean install too and my iMac suffers from lag and is buggy.
WOW, Permissions are Aways needing repair.
Mavericks might just be Apple's Vista!
You will need to monitor your RAM usage! I don't know what that other guy is talking about, because if you don't watch out for it, you will experience freezing, spinning color ball or death and final a crash. You will have data curruption. I've installed it 3x things something was conflicting with the install. NOPE!! Mavericks is just F'd up!! This should've gotten released. If you don't believe run STEAM the online gaming app and whatcha what happens to your system performance and processor! Stand by to pull the pull (RESET). Because it's gonna crash your system if it's not the only thing running!
I have a 27 inch iMac (late 2013) and I was experiencing the same issue for the first day after the update. After 24 hours apple released a firmware update for my iMac and the issues have gone away. I had since added more memory and currently have 3.56Gb used of 16Gb.
So far Marvericks has been stable on all 3 of my systems, 2010 Macbook air with 4GB and 2011 Macbook Pro with 8Gb and 2013 iMac with 16Gb.
Good luck
Dr. C.
Message was edited by: Dr. Cox added the "s" to Mavericks :)
they wont tell us anything unless they have to.
I posted a relatively tame complaint about "Bandit" more than "Maverick" and they removed my comment.
Censorship by powerful forces is a dangerous thing, that famous 1984 advertisement is haunting for the wrong reasons now.
I will forgive them if they fix this disaster making older computers slow down dramatically.
socrates Melbourne
Mavericks and memory (Ram)
