ram hungry

Hi, I have really high ram usage on my M1 iMac which has 8 gigabytes of ram. When I close all the apps on my Mac, the ram usage shows that 50% of the ram has been taken up. Is there any fix to this or is this normal, this doesn't seem normal to me.

Hey! I am new to learning about how computers actually work but am learning a lot and loving all of it. I am in need of a new laptop, and am comparing upgrading the M2 Pro from 16 to 32gb RAM (this version has the slower 512GB SSD), or instead upgrading from 10 to 12core CPU, and 16 to 19core...

I discovered a paged memory pool leak happening when any audio output of Apple Audio Device is active (this excludes Bluetooth devices because they use different driver) in Windows (in Boot Camp) and I request community help in collecting data regarding the issue. The problem was proved to be...

Hello, Am I the only one noticing that since updating to 12.2, macOS is eating way more RAM for everything that it did on 12.1? Illustrator, Safari, WindowServer (as soon as plugged to the Ultrafine, this one grows on the 14'M1Pro, more than on 12.1!) etc The pressure on RAM used to be around...

So my MacBook Pro (late 2013) 8MB RAM, 2.8ghz i7 and iMac 27 inch (late 2012) 32MB RAM, 3.4ghz i7, are both still on High Sierra since I was using Photoshop CS5 and needed the 32 bit support. But I have now upgraded to CC so don't need to stay on High Sierra Both my MacBook and iMac are...