2.0.0 beta 1 on M1 Max - strange Memory usage display

APP now uses up to 98% of the available memory. I guess it determined here it would need a lot during the process, let me ask Mabula for specifics.

Hi Jochen,

The memory that APP is claiming is the 10082 MBs number out of a possible 57096 MBs. The RED numbers for your OS indicate that the OS as a whole is consuming a lot possibly to other tasks/applications on your operating system?

What is macOS reporting for memory usage for APP at such a moment with macOS system monitor ?

Mabula

Hi Mabula,

the strange thing is, APP was the only major Applicatio running, additionally I had just minor surveilance Apps like  TG Pro (fan control), Cleaner Pro running idle. These, without APP do not use  RAM extensively. Even when APP was indicating 98% for APP and 100% for OS, the total amount used seemed to be just 31% as indicated by Cleaner Pro - which might translate into the RAM amount used by APP actually. Also, I recorded processing speeds and I couldn't see any hint of a slowdown which would be expected in RAM overload phases. I may provide You a high-level protocol of yesterday's stacking process, including temperatures, fan speeds and time stamps (I was just nerdy-curious 😉

Jochen

Hi Mabula,

here is a snapshot while Normaliztion:

APP RAM is indicating 22 GB while Activity Monitor is pretty much in line with 21GB for APP. However, OS read is already ramped up to some 64 GB in APP and I think I know why: in Activity Monitor, I could see a high amount of Cache used (34 GB) and a lot of Compressed Memory 45 GB, but 0 Swap. You can also see the CPU cores loaded nicely in the graph, with the GPU cores idle around 10% Avg. or 25% burst load.

Hope this helps,

Jochen

Hi Jochen @jochen-scharmann,

So nothing is odd then. APP is reporting the same memory consumption as is macOS.

What macOS is doing besides that is on the operating system level and completely out of our control of course. If it is data for cache that consumes the memory on OS level, I would not be concerned, because it would be released if another application really needs it 😉

Mabula

Thanks Mabula, I agree...

what puzzled me is that I never saw the "OS" RAM usage ramping up to 98% on my old Intel i7 Mac...

I am not sure if it helps to count in the cache size, as cache usage is just temporarily and would be reliefed as You said. Ideally I would expect APP to display just "real" RAM usage in total. If you watch red letters@100% it's hard to tell yourself it's nothing to worry about 😉

Thanks again for Your great support!

Jochen

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