How to free-up more RAM?

Hey guys, my Mac Mini mid 2011 has 8GB of RAM installed, but I keep running out of RAM and I constantly need to keep checking the amount of free RAM I've got available. This is very tedious and it slows down my productivity.
I noticed that in 'About This Mac' it says my graphics is using 512mb of RAM. Since I don't play many games, how can I only give my graphics 256mb of RAM so that OSX has more RAM at its disposal?
Will OSX Yosemite fix this?
Thanks for any help!!!

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Hi czer27,
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