03-28-2011, 01:22 PM

Hey,

I have memory usage problem with my MBP mid 09.
I istalled more ram into it and it has now 8 gb of ram... After using some high memory using program like after effects, memory usage stays high also after quitting the program. It stays in about 5 gb even if I quit all programs...

I can see this in the activity monitor. And it is indeed active memory, not inactive memory.

Is this a memory problem or system problem or problem in the program(After effects)??

Thanks,

03-28-2011, 02:12 PM

In Activity Monitor, if you select All Processes from the pull-down at the top, and sort by Real Mem, what's eating up the largest block of RAM? If it's not a system level file, kill it and see if memory usage returns to normal.

03-28-2011, 03:29 PM

There is actually nothing that uses alot of memory. Number 1 on the list is firefox with 143,1 mb of mem usage. Next is kernel task with 115 mb. The all the rest are under 50 mb. So there is nothing that´ll explain the high memory usage that the activity monitor shows me.

Right now it says:

Free: 1.20 GB
Wired: 664.4 MB
Active: 4.64 GB
Inactive: 1.50 GB
Used: 6.8 GB

Is the activity monitors system memory page giving me false readings or is there some mystic thing locking that memory? Cause theres nothing on the processes-window that´ll explain the readings???!!!

Thanks,