Kernal task using 1.03GB RAM in Activity Monitor?

Hello,
I have a 13inch MBP running Mavericks 10.9.4 with a 2.7 GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 500GB HD. I just recently had the machine Factory Reset. The only APP's I've added are PAGES, NUMBERS and KEYNOTE. When I check the ACTIVITY MONITOR it indicates that out of 16GB of RAM MEMORY, 5.51GB is being used. Usually ACTIVITY MONITOR indicates that as much as 9GB RAM is being used. This MBP is 3 years old and I clearly upgraded the RAM from 4GB (I think) to 16GB. Since this MBP used to run with only 4GB of RAM total; it seems to me that the current amount of memory being used, from 5.51GB up to 9GB out of 16GB total RAM is unusually high. In addition, the above numbers were displayed when only Safari and Activity Monitor are running. Is this normal for Mavericks OSX?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Dennis

I have a 16GB Macbook Pro, and my kernel_task has 1.12GB or RAM, 15.85GB used, split between app memory at 6.67GB, file cache at 7.36GB, and 1.83GB wired.
So what. My Mac is running fine. I do not care how RAM is used, as long as I am getting good performance.
Unused RAM is wasted RAM. My Mac is making sure I get full value from my money.
If you are having an actual performance issue, please describe what you are seeing, what apps you are running at the time, and if you have an anti-malware or Mac cleaner apps running on your system (historical trouble makers).
If your system is running fine, then either do not worry about it, or follow the pointers Linc has provided.

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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
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My Macbook pro Mid 2012 Model Seems to be using too much RAM

Hello everybody, I recenlty bought a Macbook pro Mid 2012 Model and I absolutely fell in love with it! I use it everyday for school, work, and for my musical hobby.
I haven't had a single problem with it until recently, and it seems like the RAM memory is being all used up without me even running programs. This problem barely started rougly 2-3 weeks ago and it's becoming annoying. I do plan to upgrade the ram soon seeing as the extra RAM will help run my engineering software I'm going to be using.
Anywho I'm just looking for tips, suggestions or answers as to why this problem is occuring. Also heard from a fellow employee that Google Chrome can cause this problem with RAM and battery life as well.

Stop using Chrome for any number of reasons and stick to Safari. An aspect of OS X memory management is to take over as much memory as possible in order to better manage the memory, however, this does not mean you are running out of memory. You only run out of memory when you try to run too many applications concurrently given the amount of RAM you have. You will know when that happens because the computer will slow down, you will see the beachball a lot, everything you do takes forever, and the hard drive will be grinding away.
About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory & determine how much RAM is used
OS X Mavericks- About Activity Monitor
Understanding top output in the Terminal
The amount of available RAM for applications is the sum of Free RAM and Inactive RAM. This will change as applications are opened and closed or change from active to inactive status. The Swap figure represents an estimate of the total amount of swap space required for VM if used, but does not necessarily indicate the actual size of the existing swap file. If you are really in need of more RAM that would be indicated by how frequently the system uses VM. If you open the Terminal and run the top command at the prompt you will find information reported on Pageins () and Pageouts (). Pageouts () is the important figure. If the value in the parentheses is 0 (zero) then OS X is not making instantaneous use of VM which means you have adequate physical RAM for the system with the applications you have loaded. If the figure in parentheses is running positive and your hard drive is constantly being used (thrashing) then you need more physical RAM.
Adding RAM only makes it possible to run more programs concurrently. It doesn't speed up the computer nor make games run faster. What it can do is prevent the system from having to use disk-based VM when it runs out of RAM because you are trying to run too many applications concurrently or using applications that are extremely RAM dependent. It will improve the performance of applications that run mostly in RAM or when loading programs.

Activity monitor shows Billions of messages - activitymonitord & kernel_task?

I'm seeing Billions of messages on activitymonitord and kernel_task after 1 day of uptime. Is this something to be worried about? Is it related to the >240GB virtual memory size? Yes, I leave activity monitor running to show me the memory use in the dock icon. That's probably why it's messages are so high. Is it a good practice to leave activity monitor running all the time - i.e. for the disk drive?

Messages are simply communications sent between tasks (programs), and are tracked. Activity monitor has to continuously poll tasks and the kernel to determine what their states are and issue the statistics you see, so it will have one of the higher rates of message throughput than almost any other program.
Message counts are cumulative, and start when a specific program is run, so if you have kept Activity Monitor on continually for over a day then it can very easily get up to billions of messages sent. In keeping mine on for the ~10 minute duration of typing this reply it has jumped to 31 million messages.
The virtual memory size is also well within the expected range. My current VM size for a system with 16GB RAM is 497GB.
Overall, it looks like everything's running as expected.

Activity Monitor won't open

Lately I cannot open the AM I get the message "AM can not start because of incorrect file permissions I have trashed the AM plist from the preferences in Library but no result. Message concludes "try opening it from utilities in the apps folder" which is exactly where it is.
Any help appreciated. I posted this last year and did not follow up, apologies.

Try reinstalling the Activity Monitor application. Get Pacifist
You can use Pacifist to extract the Activity Monitor application from your restore disk(s) and reinstall it.
Make sure and run Disk Utility and repair disk permissions after you install the app. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select FirstAid, then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU when it's finished and reboot.
Carolyn

Activity Monitor shows wrong disk usage

On my new MacBook Air (with Lion), Activity Monitor states I'm using 123 GB of the available 264 GB -- which is impossible, as it is still a "shadow" of my MacBook Pro, which only is using 107 GB of its 128 GB. Also, WhatSize on my Air is showing only 40 GB used... why would Activity Monitor be so wildly off -- or is there something else (possibly Lion-related) going on?

See:
Where did my Disk Space go?
What are Local Snapshots?

Kernal Task is increasing and it's decreasing my FREE RAM

Hi...
I've been noticing my RAM decreasing faster than before I installed the OS update to 10.4.9. I was looking at the Activity Monitor. I saw that the Kernal_Task activity is tremendously higher than the rest of the "Process Name." Is that normal? Also, when I launch any application, the Kernal-task increases even more and it doesn't decrease when I quit an application. Is that normal, too? My total RAM is 4.5 gigs.
Leigh-Anne

Hi
Read this about Kernal_Task:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showpost.php?s=44f073c6e35c2c7f4958f7972e6f26b8&p= 183614&postcount=2
Steve

HELP- Over 1 Gigabyte of "Swap Used" in Activity Monitor RAM!

Hello,
I have a late 2013 Retina Macbook Pro running Yosemite, with 8 Gigabytes of RAM. I noticed that on the Activity Monitor it shows that I have over 1 Gig of "swap used"! In the screenshot it says 974 megabytes, which is still bad. I've heard that it's okay for your memory usage to be high as long as the memory pressure graphic is green, but I've also heard that swap shouldn't be used, especially not 1 Gig of Swap.
I'm not running any high intensity programs, only Safari, Spotify, iMessage, Mail, iTunes, Chrome, and things of that sort. Why would it be so high?
High swap used is a bad thing, because it uses the SSD and shortens its lifetime. I don't even know why I would be using it, as I'm not running anything very intense.
What can I do? What should I do? Should I re-install Yosemite from scratch? Does anyone know what app could be making this happen in the background?
Kernel-Task and WindowServer are the processes that are using the most RAM that I don't know anything about. A screenshot is attached.

Safari normally uses over 1 GB of ram even if I only have a few tabs open.. often I have videos loaded, though. I think I'll clear out cookies, cache of safari and then possibly re-install Yosemite.

MacPro Quad Core 32g Ram running slow Logic using only 9g in Activity Monitor

Well its taken a while, but this is my first foray into the world of forums! I'm so hacked off with this regular problem and havent been able to find anything anywhere to solve it i thought i'd see if anyone has any similiar issues and maybe even a solve to it.
So.... im an orchestrator and producer and after my mid 2008 Macbook Pro with 8g ram started freezing up i invested in this 3 years ago -
Mac Pro 2x 2.4ghz Quad Core intel Xeon and stuck in 32gb of lovely Crucial RAM and 3 seperate internal 1TB drives with one for operating system (10.6.8), one for Audio recording/saving and one for all my sample libraries.
32gb ram - should be enough i thought!
So i regularly run at least 30 VI's - Ni The giant, Spitfire Orchestral librabies (say 12 string instruments up to 0.69g per load) LASS strings, plus perc STYLUS, ABBEY road drums, Trillian basses (acoustic/electric), ominisphere etc etc. So pretty hefty sample instruments. But theyre sooo nice!!
In addition, the 32 bit server will come alive (NOT! So unstable i find) with my Waves plugs etc.
Looking at ACTIVITY MONITOR however i might be not touching 9 gig (and sometimes even less) of usage for Logic, and only say 800MB for 32 bit server and have NOTHING else open - and what do i find .....
- Mouse lag and cant really do anything with the mouse whilst playing the track - cant adjust volume - too slow, zooming problems
- Takes a good 2-3 seconds for track to stop playing
Dont get System OVERLOADS so much, its just that the system goes REALLLLLY slow.
What ive tried- - -
- Running Mountain Lion off another drive (havent had time to install it and wanted to be sure everything worked etc)
- Tried all audio prefs - large/small buffers/threads etc and yes i am on 1024.
in a nutshell how come with 32g RAM everything is so slow when barely using 10g of that???????
I dread getting to the end of a project cos i know im gonna be freezing so much, but with so much editing all the time for the orchestral parts i need everything unfrozen and working.
Sorry if this is long winded but wanted to describe what im experiencing.
Any feedback most welcome! Thankyou in advance.
Mac Pro 2x 2.4ghz Quad Core intel Xeon 32g RAM, 3TB storage
10.6.8
Logic Pro 9.1.8

Hi
A few thoughts:
julian6400 wrote:
In addition, the 32 bit server will come alive (NOT! So unstable i find) with my Waves plugs etc.
The 32bit server is a pita: Waves v9 are 64bit compatible (they run fine). 32 bit VI's can be run outside Logic using Vienna Ensemble Pro (see later)
julian6400 wrote:
So i regularly run at least 30 VI's - Ni The giant, Spitfire Orchestral librabies (say 12 string instruments up to 0.69g per load) LASS strings, plus perc STYLUS, ABBEY road drums, Trillian basses (acoustic/electric), ominisphere etc etc. So pretty hefty sample instruments. But theyre sooo nice!!
Some of these VI's are extremely CPU hungry: Abbey Rd drums for example, really do hammer the CPU. What does Logic's Performance meter show in the way of CPU load. What does Activity Monitor show regarding CPU load?
With 32G of RAM, this should not be the issue, but you might have general CPU problems (see above), and you may also have Sample disk streaming limitations if all the Loibraries you mention are on the same drive. How does Activity Monitor look regarding disk access? You might find it helpful to add a second drive and split the sample libraries across 2 for faster disk access.
I presume that you have plenty of free space on the System drive?
Logic can get sluggish if the Undo info gets way too big, and also if there are loads of regions in the Arrange: check Options:Project Information.
Many are finding some benefits (me included) by running the VI's in Vienna Ensemble Pro:
Better CPU load distribution than directly in Logic
"Persistant Samples": they can remain loaded whilst you switch Logic Projects
Logic is effectively running much less itself, so generally flies.
32bit Plugs hosted separately in VEP so no 32bit Bridge issues in Logic
Something to consider,though perhaps not yet, would be setting up a Slave computer using VEP.
CCT

RAM remaining active when not in use and grinding system to hault

Hello there!
The to point, my RAM appears to be acting very strangely and would be very grateful for any explanation/workaround/solution.
I regularly use the RAM intensive application After Effects CS5. I have 16GB (8x2 GB matching pairs) of RAM which has worked fine for the past year or so until now. I usually tell After Effects not to render one frame at a time (no absurd multiprocessing requests) and to leave 6GB of ram free for other applications in its memory preferences. This used to stop AE from gobbling up too much RAM and slowing down the entire system. However, all of a sudden AE has started to disregard its memory settings and proceeds to use all of the available RAM until none is left. I then see my renders grind to a hault and the entire system move the speed of a snail as little to no free RAM remains.
What is worse is that after I stop the render and quit After Effects, 8GB or so of ram remains active acccording to Activity Monitor, even though nothing is using it. I need to restart in order to get back to normal.
I have tried all of the standard AE fixes, erasing preferences, cleaning caches, changing render settings, etc. I have also done all of the standard OS clean outs with Onxy, Disk Utility, etc. Nothing works.
Below is a screen shot of my idle system with nothing open. The numbers do not add up!
Below is a screenshot of what happens about 5 minutes into any render in AE, completely full RAM with with the Swap increasing with every pass.
I realize that this is quite a specific question I should point at Adobe but I'm thinking it might be more of an OS issue as it has happened so suddenly for no apparent reason. No new type of render, no settings or updates applied lately, just completely out of the blue. Help much appreciated!
I am running an Early 2008 8 Core Mac Pro, 8 GB of good ram in matching 2GB pairs. 4 fast internal drives. Mac OS 10.6.7

The numbers don't add up as 6GB is shown as active in the pie chart while the amount of ram used by the processes list barely reaches 1GB. So what is using the remaining 5GB of active memory?
I would not mind this so much if it was being used by some unseen system resource, and was made free if needed by other apps, but that is the problem. When I load more apps from this state the ram does not clear out and I see the computer struggling and writing page outs/ins even when the amount of ram being used in the list of prcesses is well below 16GB. The mystery process seems to remain active and does not release the ram.
Hatter - I have gone through MANY threads about Adobe not releasing memory. I have been using AE for years and never and very aquainted with the best settings to use for rendering in accordance with available ram, processors, and fast drives. Many of them complain about inactive memory not being released and Apple's memory management. This is more of an oddity as until now everything has been fine. I am doing a render of the sort I have done hundreds of times in the past with this system.
My problem is that this started happening all of a sudden for no apparent reason. AE allows one to control how much ram it uses and how much is left for other applications. I keep this at the Adobe forum suggested 6GB, and until a few days ago it would leave 6GB free. The render would progress smoothly, no need for page outs, no maxing of the ram. A simple render.
Now the same simple renders max out all of the RAM despite my telling AE not to use it all. Changing the memory use settings seems to make no difference no difference at all and I gradually see the ram fill out to maximum and then the page in/outs go through the roof, the render taking 4-5 times as long as previous.
So a bit stuck here! Do yall think I'll need to re-install my system to fix this or perhaps it might be more of a hardware problem? I am hesitant to wipe and re-install from a backup image so if any other possibly solutions come to mind please let me know...Possibly a hardware problem? =/
Thanks for yout time!

Why dose my activity monitor say I'm using more in tasks then in total?

Why dose my activity monitor say I'm using more in tasks then in total?
see how Guild Wars 2 uses 92.8% yet the total use is 12.03%, 86.54% is idle and the system is using 1.4% why is this?

Cortess,
they’re two orthogonal percentage measurements. For the “% CPU” column in Activity Monitor, the total percent available depends upon your hardware: a single-core CPU has 100% available, a dual-core CPU has 200% available, and a quad-core CPU has 400% available. (The column might have been better labeled “% Cores”.) For the System/User/Idle at the bottom of the window, those represent a total of 100% of whatever your hardware comprises. For example, if you have a quad-core CPU, then your total System usage would be 400% of 1.43%, or a total of 5.72% in the “% CPU” column. Similarly, your total User usage would be 400% of 12.03%, or a total of 48.12% in the “% CPU” column. The percentage value for Guild Wars 2 might have been magnified because of its dependence upon your MacBook Pro’s discrete GPU.

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