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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1621428" data-attributes="member: 110816">First and foremost, lets dispense with the myth that using ALL of your memory is a bad thing. This is far from the truth, you actually want all of the memory used up during normal usage.Jake hit one of the two things you need to keep an eye on, i.e, Swap Used. This indicates the amount of contents that OS X had to move from RAM to your hard drive (SSD) to make space for an application. Usually things that are moved to hard drive from RAM will have to be moved back at some point and of this back-and-forth happens often, you're going to get whats known as &quot;disk thrashing&quot; and that will definitely affect overall system performance..The second thing you want to look at is Wired Memory, this is an indication of how much memory CANNOT be swapped to disk and must remain in RAM. In your case, of the 8GB of RAM, less than 1GB is Wired which means that you are completely fine..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1621428, member: 110816"] First and foremost, lets dispense with the myth that using ALL of your memory is a bad thing. This is far from the truth, you actually want all of the memory used up during normal usage. Jake hit one of the two things you need to keep an eye on, i.e, Swap Used. This indicates the amount of contents that OS X had to move from RAM to your hard drive (SSD) to make space for an application. Usually things that are moved to hard drive from RAM will have to be moved back at some point and of this back-and-forth happens often, you're going to get whats known as "disk thrashing" and that will definitely affect overall system performance.. The second thing you want to look at is Wired Memory, this is an indication of how much memory CANNOT be swapped to disk and must remain in RAM. In your case, of the 8GB of RAM, less than 1GB is Wired which means that you are completely fine.. [/QUOTE]

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