The Photos app on Yosemite is using 2.69GB of the 8GB of RAM I have installed. It seems like an awful lot to me and it doesn't always do this. It tends to happen after it's been open for a while. Any help is much appreciated thanks!
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
That's the way it's intended to work. With Mavericks and Yosemite all available RAM is used if necessary. As additional apps are opened and require RAM it's released from those using the RAM and allocated to the new app. The thinking here is any unused RAM is wasted RAM.
As long as the memory pressure is in the green and steady and no swap used in Activity Monitor there's no problem.
Yes, I'm aware of this but I should have said before the the memory pressure goes into orange and the animations of moving spaces etc becomes a bit jittery.
Download and run Etrecheck. Copy and paste the results into your reply. Etrecheck is a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here (and recommended by Apple Support personnel) in the ASC to help identify the more obvious culprits that can adversely affect a Mac's performance.
Photos app using 2.69GB of RAM
