RAM usage is always tricky! To gain performance the system setup a cache area where the most active data is held (Apps and your work).
So if we turn this into a driving exercise between your car and mine going down the highway it’s likely one will use more fuel than the other. That also holds true with RAM! As you may setup a few more start items or even run a few Apps (even closing them) but the persistence of the cache is still present.
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What you want to monitor is memory leaks where a given process keeps consuming RAM and not release it until to restart the system. Leverage Activity Monitor to review things.
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What you want to monitor is memory leaks where a given process keeps consuming RAM and not release it until to restart the system. Leverage Activity Monitor to review things over a period of time.
RAM usage is always tricky! To gain performance the system setup a cache area where the most active data is held (Apps and your work).
So if we turn this into a driving exercise between your car and mine going down the highway it’s likely one will use more fuel than the other. That also holds true with RAM! As you may setup a few more start items or even run a few Apps (even closing them) but the persistence of the cache is still present.
What you want to monitor is memory leaks where a given process keeps consuming RAM and not release it until to restart the system. Leverage Activity Monitor to review things.