sjøgren
Level 1
(56 points)
Q: Mavericks and memory (Ram)
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
vea1083
Level 3
(696 points)
As cbs20 said, OS X Mavericks uses RAM much more efficiently than any other previous version of OS X. Mavericks now has a memory compression feature that will compress the memory occupied by applications that aren't being actively used and give the freed up RAM to the application that needs it the most. The result is a much more responsive system and less memory being dumped to a swap file to the HDD which is what reduces the performance of your Mac.
If I were you, I would not look at the RAM used number but rather to the Memory Pressure graph that tells you how stressed is the system in terms of memory.
I hope this clears out your question.
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