Heavy Ram usage after Mavericks update

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As the title states, my RAM usage is way higher than it was on Mountain Lion, is anyone else experiencing this? I thought Mavericks came with new RAM management ect?

I have a 2011 MBA with 4GIG RAM and normally I would have between 1-1.5GB RAM free but now as I type this I have 7 tabs open in Chrome and iTunes open (normally have alot more apps open at the same time) and only just under 500mb RAM free.

I am using memory clean to show available free RAM.

Anyone else experiencing this?
 
No, Free RAM is not always what it seems, often the Operating System will use free RAM for caching of data and buffers to reduce disk access. However, when applications start to open and require more RAM this will be freed up first.
Open the activity monitor and have a look at the "Memory" tab. That will give you a better idea of what is going on.
Don't worry about the processes at the top, look at the graph and values in the bottom section.
 
Way69 said:
use safari ;-)
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I was using Safari when I upgraded to Mavericks but it seemed to use more RAM than Chrome. So going to use Chrome the next few days and then switch back to Safari to see if there is any difference.
 
Dammit you were talking about Mavericks the OS I thought this thread was about Mavericks the strip club and RAM of cause... Change the title it's misleading :/
 
Code: 
wget http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py
chmod +x ps_mem.py
sudo ./ps_mem.py
 
My MacBook Air's RAM usage has pretty much stayed the same. Performance is still the same :)
 
Free memory is wasted memory. AS long as performance isn't degraded, it's all fine.
 
nand said:
Free memory is wasted memory. AS long as performance isn't degraded, it's all fine.
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Yeah, I most certainly think that Mavericks is simply using more RAM in order to avoid the disk. I wouldn't worry about it unless you see severe paging...
 
HoOdeh said:
My MacBook Air's RAM usage has pretty much stayed the same. Performance is still the same :)
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Same here regarding usage, but things do seem snappier to me especially when a 2nd monitor is connected. I used to notice some slight framedrops on desktop animations when having a lot of apps open, I no longer notice that with Mavericks.

Battery life is also better for me.
 
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