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Usage of RAM seems to have skyrocketed - help?
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<blockquote data-quote="xdunlapx" data-source="post: 1531798" data-attributes="member: 261057"><p>Hello. I have a very similar problem as this thread: <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/297821-abnormal-ram-usage-when-all-main-applications-closed.html" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/297821-abnormal-ram-usage-when-all-main-applications-closed.html</a></p><p></p><p>Here is the screenshot of my Activity Monitor:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]19407[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Is this RAM usage normal? I'm running Maxthon which is a Chromium browser, Mail, Adium, and TextEdit. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes my RAM gets so low that the Free ram is less than 10MB and then my computer freezes a little bit and eventually returns to normal. Why would this be happening? I usually don't have a ton of apps open. I thought 8GB of ram was sufficient which is why I upgraded the RAM from 4GB. I am seriously thinking of purchasing 16GB RAM to replace these 2 4GB sticks. How in the world do other Mac users only survive on 4GB ram??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xdunlapx, post: 1531798, member: 261057"] Hello. I have a very similar problem as this thread: [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/297821-abnormal-ram-usage-when-all-main-applications-closed.html"]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/297821-abnormal-ram-usage-when-all-main-applications-closed.html[/URL] Here is the screenshot of my Activity Monitor: [ATTACH=FULL]19407[/ATTACH] Is this RAM usage normal? I'm running Maxthon which is a Chromium browser, Mail, Adium, and TextEdit. Sometimes my RAM gets so low that the Free ram is less than 10MB and then my computer freezes a little bit and eventually returns to normal. Why would this be happening? I usually don't have a ton of apps open. I thought 8GB of ram was sufficient which is why I upgraded the RAM from 4GB. I am seriously thinking of purchasing 16GB RAM to replace these 2 4GB sticks. How in the world do other Mac users only survive on 4GB ram?? [/QUOTE]
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