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high ram usage

  1. S

    mds_stores is hogging up GBs of memory

    mds_stores is hogging up GBs of memory. I guess it's related to spotlight indexing. With every boot, mds_stores just stat up and eat up RAM. Doesn't happen when I keep spotlight turned of via terminal. How do I stop this without turning off spotlight? Already tried creating new index via Onyx...
  2. tHeRoomers

    macOS High Sierra (10.13) ram Hog

    I'm not entirely sure if this is only happening to me, but ever since I upgrade to High Sierra (10.13) I noticed that its been taking up a lot of ram. I have barely anything opened and 3 quarters of my 16gb is used up. I tried to do a fresh reinstall and reloaded from my time machine back-up...