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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1870459" data-attributes="member: 396914">Application memory can be monitored with the Activity Monitor app found in Applications/Utilties. One of the tabs in that application is Memory, where you can see what is going on.Is this problem on the iPac in your profile or on another system? Are you still at 10.12.6 version of the OS? 8GB should be enough for most things to work well. How many applications are you trying to run at the same time? Note: Clicking the red X does not actually shut down an app, it just pushes it into the background and leaves it running (and taking up memory). To actually shut down an app, click on the app name in the upper left corner of the screen, then Quit from the menu option. That will actually shut down the app and remove it from memory.EDIT: And a reboot will normally clear up application memory as long as you don't restart the same applications in the reboot process. Uncheck &quot;Reopen Windows&quot; in the shutdown dialog box to prevent that from happening. Whether or not you lose information depends on whether or not the open apps have any open documents that you have not saved. Properly behaving apps should warn you that you need to save before being shut down to help you not lose anything.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1870459, member: 396914"] Application memory can be monitored with the Activity Monitor app found in Applications/Utilties. One of the tabs in that application is Memory, where you can see what is going on. Is this problem on the iPac in your profile or on another system? Are you still at 10.12.6 version of the OS? 8GB should be enough for most things to work well. How many applications are you trying to run at the same time? Note: Clicking the red X does not actually shut down an app, it just pushes it into the background and leaves it running (and taking up memory). To actually shut down an app, click on the app name in the upper left corner of the screen, then Quit from the menu option. That will actually shut down the app and remove it from memory. EDIT: And a reboot will normally clear up application memory as long as you don't restart the same applications in the reboot process. Uncheck "Reopen Windows" in the shutdown dialog box to prevent that from happening. Whether or not you lose information depends on whether or not the open apps have any open documents that you have not saved. Properly behaving apps should warn you that you need to save before being shut down to help you not lose anything. [/QUOTE]

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