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Q: High RAM usage

I just bought an imac 27 i7 3TB fusion drive.  It came with 8gb of RAM.  I run both Aperture and Final Cut Pro X and things went along pretty well.  I noticed that the activity monitor often showed RAM usage at close to the max 8gb.  I did not notice any performance lags.

 

I recently upgraded to 24gb RAM.  With only Chrome and Mail running my RAM usage is more than 15.  If Aperture or FCP X is open, the RAM usage approaches 24, which is the max, even if I am not doing any editing. 

 

What gives?  If I maxed out at 32GB RAM, would the computer always be approaching the max?   I'm not troubled by this, but I am curious.  Why does the RAM usage always seem to approach the max available?

 

Thanks!

 

Steve

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), i7, 3TB fusion drive

Posted on Dec 18, 2013 8:10 PM

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