I checked the RAM usage and I only have about 2 GB out of my 8 GB available. And when I use Adobe Lightroom 5 I'm screwed because it uses all of the RAM and I can't even edit because it freezes. This is crazy. Please help me. Thanks.
Try not using any other apps at the same time as Adobe Lightroom. That will free up system resources including RAM.
RAM minimum requirements for Adobe Lighthouse is 2GB but 4GB's is recommended > http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/system-requirements.html
Open Activity Monitor and take a screenshot of the Memory page, post it here.
I am not the topic starter, but I'm experiencing the same kind of problem.
I recently baught a new macbook pro, the version with 16gb of ram and 2 graphical cards and when starting up, (closing the adobe cloud and other background apps) with only dropbox running in the background. The only applications open are finder, firefox and activity montitor, please help ?
Your Ram use is fine, nothing is compressed and no swapping has occurred since whenever you booted it up.
Your apps are using 2.64GB, files cached are 4.98GB and the system itself is using 1.3GB.
There is nothing wrong at all.
Hello CSound,
Thank you for your quick and clear reply !
So what are the max. value's files cache and the system ?
Thanks in advance !
The max values will be when all the Ram is used (which will be a lot of the time)
I assumed that after reading the apple explanation about the compressed memory ...
Last night I rendered some video material and had all value's at about the max, but the stress diagram showed nothing to worry about ... My video has never been rendered that fast, my previous MBP was from 2009 ... 🙂
I don't know if I can ask this here : I need to use a video editor in Windows (I can't go around that because it's from Laptimer manufacturer for getting télémetry data into my video) and after installing win 8.1 trough parallels it shows in my windows preferences that I have only 1 or 2 gb ram and about 0.5 gb gfx , is this normal ? Also rendering through windows in parallels is pretty slow ...
If this last part isn't the correct place to ask, you may delete it !
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Matthias
That would be correct assuming that you installed a 32bit version of Windows. I that is the case replace it with a 64bit version. Also check how much Ram you allocated to Windows (Parallels settings).
Whatever you do it will be slow in a virtual machine, doesn't matter which virtual machine.
Why am I using so much RAM on my Macbook Pro with Retina?
