Steve Macmanus
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Q: Why, with only Mail running, do I only have 256Mb of Ram out of 4Gb installed?

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Mid 2007

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 2:52 AM

by OGELTHORPE,Solvedanswer
OGELTHORPE OGELTHORPE
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Mac OS X
A:

Based on the Activity Monitor display, you are not running Lion as your profile indicates, but Mavericks or newer. The newer OSX's will try to use as much RAM as is available, so what you are seeing is quite normal even though you are not using resource intensive applications.  The new metric now is PRESSURE.  If it is green, all is well.  Orange and red become matters for concern.

 

This may be informative:

 

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201464

 

Ciao.

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 3:29 AM

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