Elln
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Q: Yosemite excessive RAM use

I have been having serious RAM issues ever since I installed Yosemite.

My system is a Mac Pro, 2008. 2 x 2.8 intel processors, 10 GB RAM, NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GT 512

 

I normally have google and Aperture running, using over 9GB. Is this normal? If my system have not gotten slower, I wouldn't mind. I am having problems with Aperture though as I am working on a very large library.

I tried several things, repaired disk permissions, reset the SMC, reset the PRAM... none of it worked. I tried blocking Google helper, still nothing.

 

Can someone help me understand if this is normal for Yosemite? Is there any trick I can do about it? Or should I add more RAM and forget about it?

Still.. it's a bit annoying knowing that only a few months ago I was using half the amount of RAM, performing similar tasks.

 

I am attaching a photo from my activity monitor. Any tips, experiences, comments would help.

 

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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Apr 22, 2015 6:56 AM

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  • by JimmyCMPIT,

    JimmyCMPIT JimmyCMPIT Apr 22, 2015 1:32 PM in response to Csound1
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    Apr 22, 2015 1:32 PM in response to Csound1

    I can't

    we have serious issues with safari not timing out on the exchange server's webmail which is the companies lifeblood and the last few versions of Firefox are crashy. our email IT support is overseas and 24 response is the best you can expect after 6 calendar months go by with no response from them, and the follow up "is it still happening?"

    that's money well spent!

  • by etresoft,

    etresoft etresoft Apr 22, 2015 5:41 PM in response to Elln
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    Apr 22, 2015 5:41 PM in response to Elln

    Everything looks normal. Yosemite is much more aggressive about using all of your RAM. Unless you are noticing specific performance problems, there is nothing to worry about.

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