MacBook Pro spent a lot of memory

Hi,
I'm using a Macbook pro 13 pol, OSX 10.9.2, i5 2.5GHz Intel Core i5. Sometimes when I use Mail apps, finder and Keynote the mac use more than 10GB of memory. I have other Macbookpro with the same configuration and the process spent less memory than this one. I restore the operating system for two times but the problem is the same. What I need to do to solve this problem?

Your Mac, running Mavericks, will try to fill the RAM if at all possible. Empty RAM is wasted RAM, so it will try to cache as much data as possible in RAM. This is normal. Unless your memory pressure graph in Activity Monitor is spiking or going into the yellow or red, you don't have a memory-related problem.
As to what the problem might be, that's impossible to do more than guess at without more information. I would recommend taking a look at my Mac Performance Guide for some basic troubleshooting steps to try.
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