We're just using Brave, Teams, Settings and Mail, which takes up 10 GB of my MacBook's ram, I don't know what's going on. Previously, it accounted for an almost negligible but now takes up so much, is there any solution?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.4
It depends a lot on what the machine was doing at the time.
In these instances, Activity Monitor can give you an idea of what is using so much RAM.
Web browsers with lots of tabs open can use a huge amount, and sometimes a poorly programmed website can cause the RAM use to spike.
Of course it could be something else, I am just pointing out a possible cause.
Activity Monitor, click on Memory; make sure that it is sorted by Memory in descending order.
Also, very important, check the "Memory Pressure" at the bottom. Usually it is green, indicating that things are ok.
It depends a lot on what the machine was doing at the time.
In these instances, Activity Monitor can give you an idea of what is using so much RAM.
Web browsers with lots of tabs open can use a huge amount, and sometimes a poorly programmed website can cause the RAM use to spike.
Of course it could be something else, I am just pointing out a possible cause.
Activity Monitor, click on Memory; make sure that it is sorted by Memory in descending order.
Also, very important, check the "Memory Pressure" at the bottom. Usually it is green, indicating that things are ok.
Why is this a problem?
Unless there is something not working as expected with your mac or one of your applications, there is no reason to worry over how much RAM is being used. macOS actually tries to keep most of the RAM in use, because unused RAM is, well... unused.
Is something not responding, or an application being too slow, or some other issue?
Are you keeping an eye in Activity Monitor, just to see how much RAM is being used? As I said, that may not mean anything. Please elaborate.
I have never used a lot of RAM, my machine has never been laggy but today it was lagging for the first time, I checked and found that the amount of RAM consumed exceeded 16GB and had to use swap memory. This is a serious problem, I never imagined when opening the computer that has consumed almost 10GB of RAM, I really want to reboot my oldest montery old macos version
Fix the lastest MacOS(13.4.1)
