Yosemite takes up so much RAM!

I have a MacBook Air 13", bought August 2014 (4GB RAM).
Just updated to Yosemite, and suddenly I hardly have any RAM! I've had Memory Clean installed on my machine for a while, but never had to use it, until this update, and now it's on all the time trying to save me some memory. Also, the mouse pointer disappears, predominantly when using Safari.
Currently under the info given by Memory Clean, "App Memory" is taking up 1.06GB (this has reduced from around 2GB earlier. Over the past few hours, "File Cache" has been at around 2GB. The "kernel_task" appears to be taking up a good 700-900MB, is this normal?
It's been running Mavericks without breaking a sweat, I've been able to message people via Facebook whilst also playing games. Yet after this update which is supposed to be "Every bit as powerful as it looks", it isn't!
What do I do?

I have same issue with the same model laptop. Very irritating that supposedly high end laptop in 2013 now struggling to do basic things thanks to Yosemite requiring so much RAM and the macbook air not able to upgrade RAM.
Main issues have been very slow internet operations, as well as blips when running apps. I notice it always happens when available ram running low. Took it to Apple store to ask why so many issues and that was where I was told about the RAM thing
I use memory clean running in the background and it has helped quite a bit so surprised about the other comments here. But have had to be more efficient in not having a bunch of stuff open at the same time.
My wife is now better off with my older macbook pro with a cheap RAM upgrade that she inherited from me than I am with my newer macbook air!!! Not the sort of progress I anticipated...
Not impressed with Apple over all this though...def seems to be a post Jobs situation happening in their efficiency (not that it was perfect before...)

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if you know of a more memory-intensive operation, such as radial blur (maybe that's only cpu-intensive), I would be interested in knowing about this.
the number of layers seem to multiply the RAM required in CS5. I think. the amount of RAM required to do photoshop seems to be a much-talked about subject and the subject of much variableness, and I wanted to nail it down a little.
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something automatically hit the send button before I could finish.
Message was edited by: jmichae1

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