os x is not letting go of resources....HELP!

montevinamontevina
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I recently opened Photoshop, After Effects, Bridge, Excel, Word and others to test how fast OS X opens multiple apps with 4GB of ram. After closing all the apps it still saying that its using 86% of my ram. What is going on and how can I stop from absorbing my entire 4gb of ram?

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    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    That's normal. When that RAM needs to be used for something else *THEN* it gets purged. Not before. If you quit all those apps, then launched them again, it would just reuse the data already paged into memory.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    montevinamontevina Posts: 23member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post


    That's normal. When that RAM needs to be used for something else *THEN* it gets purged. Not before. If you quit all those apps, then launched them again, it would just reuse the data already paged into memory.



    Gotcha Ya...Thanks!
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