
That is why it was replaced with Memory Pressure.
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Apple took out the free RAM readout because it would mislead users into thinking there was a problem if there was not free RAM.

Modern programming sees unused RAM as an expensive and fast resource that is wasted if not used as much as possible. I grant that there are rare times when "memory cleaner" apps can be OK when an application has a legitimate memory leak. ANY utilities still listing Wired, Active, Inactive, Free RAM are out of date. Cleaner is reporting the status of "free" RAM, it is using an old methodology (the Unix concept of Wired, Active, Inactive, Free) that Activity Monitor used to have, but Apple intentionally changed because they were no longer a constructive way of counting RAM usage today. If it wasn't red or even yellow, there was never any crisis no matter how you read the numbers. If it was yellow, then definitely keeping an eye on, but no need to take action yet.

What was the Memory Pressure in Activity Monitor at the time you panicked? If it was red, then strong measures are justified like killing apps immediately. Because there is no Free RAM readout! There used to be, but Apple took it out years ago.it is irrelevant today.

How did it tell you there was an actual problem? Was there a Free RAM readout that said it was low? Of course not. Looking it up.oh, I see.it's one of those "Mac cleaner" apps. Cleaner to monitor the RAM occupation and I check Activity Monitor.ĭr. Can you please give a specific example of how you knew you had to quit an application because of "RAM hogging"? How did you specifically know that RAM was the issue? Did you see an "Out of memory" error message? Was it slowing down?
