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theMotoMan
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

M1 macOS version uses 500+MB or RAM

I use an 8GB MacBook Air and it routinely runs out of RAM and starts running slow.  I recently was checking to see what the memory hogs are and the biggest is the browser, but I see that DropBox take...
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theMotoMan
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

No, I have a very minimal amount of files there.  I mostly just use this for sharing a You Need A Budget database with my wife.

 

One question I do have, is what memory sizes are others experiencing?  Even at 250MB or 200MB, that is still too large IMHO.  DropBox has 8 processes running too, which on my system makes the total RAM consumption 564.1MB!

 

 For comparison, my Synology NAS drive client (DropBox-like app) only takes 60MB.

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Hannah
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3 years ago

Hey theMotoMan, can we actually email you, so we can look into this privately?

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    theMotoMan
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    Yes, that would be fine.  I receive emails from you already, so I assume you have my email address.  I don't want to post it here in a public forum.

     

    BTW, here is another data point - my wife's 2020 M1 MBA.  It is using 538.5MB of RAM.

     

     

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      Hannah
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      3 years ago

      Thanks for the additional info! I just sent you an email, so we can continue from there. 🙂

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        McSpeedmouse
        Helpful | Level 5
        3 years ago

        Seems all OS do have the same problem

        I have 6000 files running on Windows and a RAM usage of 300MB.

        What can I do to solve this?

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