Low Ram usage?

Hey all, so I've been keeping an eye on how much ram FCX has been using and it's... really low.
Is this normal? I assumed it would use a ton but it's barely using 2gb of ram any given time I check it in Activity Moniter.
I have 16gigs installed on my Mac Pro 1,1 for the record.
Is there something I am missing here?

If you're interested in more see:
About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
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.

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Motion low ram usage

Hi,
I've a Mac Pro 2009, 8 Core, 32 Gb Ram and GeForce GT 120 512MB.
During the render process with Motion 4 usage of ram is only 6 Gb, 24 ram Gb are always free. Is this mormal?
Thanks!

More or less normal...
Motion 4 has a finite limit (about 4GB) for RAM utilization because it's not "full 64-bit". About the only place you'll see major RAM usage is with After Effects (where, if you have multiprocessing selected, you can get a bunch of tasks going at 3.2GB each...)

When rendering - low RAM usage

When rendering in Premiere CS5, my machine won't use more than about 3GB of RAM. I have 16GB installed. In the memory preference, I allow it to use up to 13GB. Any idea why it isn't utilizing all of my RAM?
Thank you!

It is not needed. PR only uses what it needs, nothing more.

High RAM usage when system is 'idle' (EtreCheck)

Hey guys,
First timer here. Ok here's my question :
I recently bought a secondhand Macbook pro 15 inch. For me it's a huge upgrade coming from a 2009 13 inch Macbook pro. Because a friend of mine wants to buy my old one I was doing some diagnostics on the 13 inch, which has 4 GB of RAM, and found out it had a lot of inactive RAM usage and wired usage, almost 2 GB, due to a lot of launchdaemons etc which were hogging the RAM. I used terminal to kill these agents and deamons and now that system is running smooth again. Maybe it's wise to mention that the 13 inch runs on ML.
3 days ago I did a clean Yosemite install on the 15 inch, swapped the HDD for a SSD. And already the activity monitor shows a whopping 4,28 GB of RAM usage while I'm typing this with just safari open. I thought I could do the same trick as I did with my 13 inch but it didn't help, had some java deamons and helpers and deleted those. In terminal I looked up everything via launchctl list and there's nothing unusual going on as far as I can see. I had VirtualBox for one day but uninstalled it using their uninstaller. I have no clue what's eating all this RAM. Please help me out so I can be a proud owner of my second macbook for atleast 5 years to come. Thanks in advance.
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The page outs indicate the OS has not recently swapped any memory to disk.
Apple made changes to 10.9 that are the same on 10.10. Memory will be used as much as possible. It is the fastest storage on the system, keeping it free is a waste of your time - data loads fastest from RAM.
This is a good explanation…
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/#compressed-memory
The system also frees 'cache' memory when another process has more need to use it. Eventually it will swap to disk (which is slow) so the OS also compresses memory before swapping is needed.
Please avoid killing launchd jobs, many will simply restart or relaunch again later. Eventually you may kill one that hangs the OS & corrupts the disk via a forced shutdown.
I do suspect you may see issues when RAM does get low, but there is no evidence of that here. The memory pressure graph will show red when swapping - every other colour is fine. Wait until you see red & then note the top memory users.
If you don't want java installed you need to find removal instructions & get it all off the system, simply stopping the update checks will leave Java in an old state - terrible for security.
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Questions about mpd and sonata ram usage

Hi again!
I'm very impressed with mpd and i really love the sonata client with it's cover art , lyrics fetching features .
I've noticed that mpd uses about 13 mb ram and sonata 16 mb of ram. I have about 6 albums in my library .
I was just wondering if it is normal for mpd and sonata to use that ram .
I have enough ram about 1gb so it's not an issue , i'm just curious if this is normal
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Lenovo A6000 very low ram

I am facing very low ram issues. even after clearing ram by default ram cleaner I only get 110-115 mb ram.
I also donot recieve real time whatsapp notifications but i am receiving gmail notifications even after clearing ram.

when i first time boot my lenovo A6000 i had around 400mb ram free, then after 3days of reguler usage now i have only 50 to 100mb ram free.
when i kill all apps by deafault kill app it shows between 180 to 250mb ram free but again after 10-15sec it shows between 50 to 100mb ram free.
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[T410i] RAM usage, hight temperature, battery

Hi all, in this pc I've got two OSs. Ubuntu 12.04 and windows 7. With the fist I haven't got any problems, the RAM (3GB) usage is usually around 33%, but always under 50%. The temperatures are high, but it is quite normal, maybe the termal paste has low power to cold down them.
The problems arrive with windows 7. I disabled a lot of startup application, but after the boot, RAM usage is already over 50%. With Avira-realtime, after 2 minutes the percentage was over 80%. I disabled it.
Mozilla used a lot of memory too, now I'm just writing this post with chrome and nothing else, and the RAM usage is at 72%.
The CPU temperatures are always over 48°C (Here in Italy it is summer) but with ubuntu are less.
These problems are increased with battery, It is impossible to use the pc. I did a scan with malwarebytes (in safe mode) and everything seemed ok. How can I solve at least the RAM problem in win 7?
Regards

peets wrote:If you have a lot of memory, why not make use of it? I'm assuming this is a home/desktop computer. It's nice to have features like caching of web pages, music, etc. or fancy 3D effects, if it doesn't slow down your regular use. I use up lots of RAM to speed up my daily computer use.
256 MB of ram. I too enjoy a featurefull desktop, but speed is equally imperative. e17 gives you something of both worlds.
quick question. It seems the only thing I really need from my xorg.conf is the keyboard configuration as it figures out the rest pretty well without a configuration file. Could I delete everything else from xorg.conf and have it autoconfigure the rest?

[HELP ]unexpected low memory usage

Hi all,
Could someone help me out with unexpected low memory usage I am facing when I start the DB instance.
I am running Oracle 8.1.7.3.2 on Windows 2000 Adv Srv with
2GB of RAM and 3GB of swap area.
I only have 1 instance with memory related init parameters setted as below.
shared_pool_size = 293510451
large_pool_size = 104857600
java_pool_size = 20971520
db_block_buffers = 107289
sort_area_size = 1048576
avg of about 150~250session so I was expecting the oracle
to allocate about 1.5GB of RAM when the instance startsup
Now, when I startup the instance, EXPECTING the oracle to
allocate about 1.5GB of RAM for himself, and check the
memory allocation status from the "task manager", it
shows that 1.4GB of physical memory is AVAILABLE. In another words, the whole system is only using 600MB of
physical memory.
Could anyone tell why this is happening and the solution to solve this problem?
BTW, even if I give loads to oracle using the Mercury LoadRunner, the memory allocation status does not change much while oracle is barely processing each transactions.
Thanks, in advance

I work mostly with UNIX but found the following from Metalink document# 46001.1 Oracle Database and the Windows NT memory architecture, Technical Bulletin. I think this answers your question:
On starting up an Oracle instance all global memory pages are reserved and committed (Total Shared Global Area, Buffer Cache and Redo Buffers). Only a small number of these memory pages are touched on startup and are thus not in Oracle's working set, as more pages are touched they will be brought into memory. Oracle must contend equally with other processes and will have its working set trimmed if other processes are faulting at a greater rate.
It is unlikely that this trimming will be desirable, especially when the database has a varying workload (high and low usage periods). Two registry parameters exist to allow the administrator to manipulate the working set bounds of the Oracle process, these are :
- ORA_WORKINGSETMIN or ORA_%SID%_WORKINGSETMIN
: Minimum working set for the ORACLE.EXE process (units = MB)
- ORA_WORKINGSETMAX or ORA_%SID%_WORKINGSETMAX
: Maximum working set for the ORACLE.EXE process (units = MB)
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IPhone hot - battery dropping fast - low RAM despite no apps open

Hi,
I have a 4S running on iOS 7.0.4. The iPhone sometimes gets extremely hot and I can practically watch its battery power drain. I noticed that AWAYS when this happens, free RAM is low (typically below 20 MB), so it could be some page treshing bug in iOS of kind.
I say bug in iOS because this happens even if I do not have any third party apps open (mostly use iBooks, Email and Calendar). And yes, background app refresh is off, as is iCloud and Siri.
I can temporarily fix the problem using the "Battery" utility to detect RAM memory usage, I use it to reallocate memory when its low. The Battery utility typically will free memory towards 150 to 220 MB. Once that's done, the battery drain stops and the iPhone starts cooling down.
The frustrating thing is that in the background - even when I do nothing but use iBooks - free RAM steadily will go down in a matter of minutes! The cycle starts over: RAM usage goes up and once it falls below 20 MB, the iPhone will get hot, I notice, re-allocate memory, iPhone cools down, etc etc.
My questions:
1. Is there any App or iOS setting which outomatically frees unused RAM memory (without me manually runnung the "Battery" utility)?
2, Where can I see which App or system process eats up the free memory?
Many thanks,
HJ

Take it back. There's definitely a problem.

Gathering CPU/RAM usage?

Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to Java but have a decent amount of C experience. I'm trying to build somewhat of a very low level monitoring tool in Java, but can't find out the simplest way to get current CPU/RAM usage. I've ran into many references to the Java Management Extensions (JMX), but can't find any basic documentation on any functions that might help me out.
If anyone can point me in the right direction on how to gather the CPU/RAM usage I will be very grateful, thanks for your time.

Theres no way to get this through the "MBeans"?
Taken from this URL:
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jconsole.html#OSResources
"The JDK 5.0 extends the Operating System MBean to include certain OS resource information such as:
* the process CPU time
* the amount of total and free physical memory"
Doesn't that mean theres some way to directly get (at least) the RAM usage without having to write platform specific JNI code? Or am I missing something?

Scratch disks and RAM usage

i would like to understand the relationship between scratch disks and RAM usage in Photoshop.
While i was working on a fairly big psb file (2gb), photoshop kept prompting that I was out of memory, but in fact the utilization was only 75% (i had 16gbs total, photoshop was only using 7gb, and i allowed PS to use up to 14gb in total). when it says out of memory, it was actually my scratch disk at fault ( i only set 1 scratch disk, which was my 120gb SSD running out of space).
any idea how I can optimize PS to use up all my RAM first before even touching my scratch disk? (short of using a RAMdisk, please).
thanks!

I am curious about this also. I just reinstalled W-7--have 11 G of physical memory--a ton of hard drive empty space also, and I have been wondering why PS_CC is so slow--since basically I have only put my Security and Browser in addition to Adobe back on the Dell XPS computer..... At least now it does show the downloading percentage (like .psd file) , but that must be what is happening. I do think that some of these "frozen" screens I have been experiencing, was because the program was using scratch disk, instead of the Ram... I came up from CS-5, and can't describe it in detail, but just realize how slow PS-CC is in most everything. Going back and see if reallocating will help...

Where to see CPU and RAM usage in IPAD 1

Hi:-)
While i have Apps running , I would like to be able to see CPU and RAM in use..and ideas how/where?
Thanks

There are several apps in the app store that can show you cpu and ram usage of your device, e.g. "system info"

Why does closing all open windows (15) and leaving only one drop ram usage from 1.5 to 1.4Gb and not more.

Why does closing all open windows (15) and leaving only one drop ram usage by only 100mb from 1.5 to 1.4Gb.
What is in this 1.4 gb ?
I don't care much about ram, It's just that cpu usage spike like crazy by the end.
''Edited to remove swearing - TonyE''

Hi musicfan,<br />Sorry you are having problems with Firefox. Maybe you should have asked earlier and we could have fixed it.
Reading your comments I do not see that rolling back to an insecure Firefox 22 will actually help you much. You are probably best using IE, unless you have also damaged that.
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You should not use old versions they are insecure. Security fixes are publicised and exploitable.
* [[Install an older version of Firefox]]
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High kernel_task RAM Usage in Yosemite 10.10.1

Hello All,
No matter what I'm running, I always have high RAM usage with kernel_task. I've looked around the other threads and never found a definitive solution. I wouldn't call it crippling to my system but I would like to resolve the issue. Below is a screenshot of my activity monitor, and my Etrecheck run. Please let me know anything I can do to reduce the RAM usage of this process.
Problem description:
High kernel_task RAM Usage (800MB - 1.5GB)
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The kernel_task memory usage is normal.

Runaway RAM Usage leading to Kernel Panic using FilmConvert Plugin (updated x3)

Hello, filed a bug report on this but cuious if anyone sees it.
Late 2012 27 iMac, top line i7 with 680MX, 32 GB RAM.
Promise R6 TB RAID.
Trying to render out a 15 min edit from Premiere that has each clip with 3 filters on it - MB Looks, MB Colorista, Filmconvert.
Since 7.01, every time I render previews or encode out, RAM use skyrockets way past the 25GB I allocated. I get up to a 50GB swap file in fact before the computer just craps out and I can't finish my render. (Nothing past 15 min anyway, I can do under that length ok.) As of this moment PPro Headless in Activity Monior has allocated 40GB and climbing....
Any ideas? Kind of a major issue. Does not happen on CS6 with same filters and similar project.
PS - The same issue is happening with the same project on my Macbook Pro 15" retina with 16GB of RAM. It's creating a huge swap file. On the iMac with Fusion drive I can't complete the render at all due to the system SSD filling up on the Fusion drive. It eventually crashes and reboots. I can complete the render on the laptop, but it ends up with a 50+ GB swap file.
UPDATE 1:
I had my suspicions a Plugin I am using, the excellent (but now unusable for over 10 min projects) plugin "FilmConvert" was causing the issue on all my Macs.
To prove it's the plugin, I removed duplicated my main 15 min sequence, removed the FilmConvert plugin from all clips while keeping the two Magic Bullet effects on. So, all filters (MB Looks, MB Colorista II) BUT filmConvert.
Result?
RAM usage stays where it should be (at the limit set in Premiere Pro CC) and there is zero swap file usage. Same project, same filters, same everything except FilmConvert was removed on this duplicate timeline.
As it stands, the plugin is unusable for longer projects. I'm still curious if anyone else has seen this, or if Adobe has any input.
UPDATE 2: I developed a workaround workflow and the vendor wrote back and thinks it's a bug in PPro CC, but will try to see if they can't code around it:
"We have had one other very recent report of this type of behaviour, but when rendering through the CC version
of Adobe Media Encoder or Premiere (but not After Effects). I believe the issue is with Media Encoder / Premiere,
although it's probably preventable within our plugin. The problem I believe is that Premiere and Media Encoder
create many instances of the plugin during a render, one instance per frame, and it seems in CC those instances
do not get cleaned up until after the render finishes.
As each plugin instance is expecting to be called many times, to render multiple frames, it keeps a certain amount
of memory allocated, in order to gain a speed advantage."
I am using the render previews workflow to deal with it for now. I set my sequence to my master codec (in this case ProRes 422 HQ, with maximum quality checked). Then I preview chunks of the timeline setting in/out, render. Then I quit the program, which frees up the RAM and the need for the swap file, which starts reducing itself. Then I run PPro again, and preview another chunk, and repeat the process until done.
To export final piece, I just export using previews matching the sequence (which is ProRes 422 HQ) and it is a straight copy at that point and quick. This is a useful workflow if you are making tons of minor edits for a client anyway, as it vastly speeds up re-renders of the final file. No loss in quality as the previews are the same as my final encode would be anyway.
Still, it would be nice if Adobe/FilmConvert or both could fix this bug so I can just queue up a whole sequence and walk away without chunking it up if I need to.
Update 3: If only Adobe could move so fast. Rubber Monkey sent me a new version to test today, and it fixed the problem. Amazing customer service!! It has not been released yet but I suspect it will be at some point. Case closed.

Glad I'm not the only one. My temporary solution was to download the kernel and wl package from December 2012 found http://repo-ck.com/PKG_source/ and then mkpkg and install it. It'll work as an alternative for now, without messing up the primary kernel setup.

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