Mavericks eats up almost all of my RAM (4GB)

[Loreno10]

Hello,

I've been using my new Mavericks setup for around 2 days and there's something what worries me: memory usage. I've got 4 GB of RAM and sometimes I have only 200MB left (once I had even something about 40MB left). I installed "Memory Clean" form the Appstore to be able to observe memory usage on the top bar. The strange thing is the fact that when I click Clean Memory button (the function of "Memory Clean" app) the free memory jumps from 200MB to 1,8GB!

Do you think I should maybe get additional 2GB to have 6GB total? Would it be OK then?

 

[nguyenmac]

Free memory in Mavericks is not the same as in Windows, you should research more about OS X RAM management anyway.

 

[Loreno10]

I read about memory management in OS X, but still it's strange to have only 8MB of free RAM (now I have exactly 8,38MB - is THAT normal?). Maybe the OS is just trying to allocate as much as it can to be faster.
I thought I haven't got enough memory, because OS isn't as fast as I thought it would be. Another thing I don't like is how it looks when I resize windows. It's not as smooth as on Windows 8, it looks rather laggy, but I found this video (youtube) - looks like even Macbooks suffer from this. Can something be done about that?

 

[nguyenmac]

I have 8GB RAM and 202 MB RAM "Free". Inactive RAM is considered free memory too.


Graphics performance won't be as good as in Windows, especially when you only have HD3000.