The extra RAM does significantly reduce battery life both in active usage and in sleep. But as several readers have noted, there is another way to add an SSD to your Mac: you can keep your old hard drive, and instead replace the Mac’s CD/DVD optical drive, also known as a SuperDrive. While I need the 16GB of RAM for my work, you should know that such an upgrade is not without negatives. The reason was simple: put an SSD in your Mac instead of the old hard disk, and you’ll be blown away by the speed increases.
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But I have to say this is seldom an issue because Mac OS X is very good about allocating resources as needed. (Web Development, data mining, running many heavy duty apps at the same time.) Even with 16GB I sometimes hit the Yellow zone for memory pressure. I do lots of work that is heavy on RAM usages.
I currently have a 2010 13" MacBook Pro that has 16GB of RAM. I really would not be worrying about this unless you see that the Activity Monitor is reporting that Memory Pressure is in the Yellow or Red zone. Mac OS X (and most modern OS: Windows, Linux, etc) are very intelligent about automatically using Cache, Swap, memory compression and other techniques to keep the system running as fast as possible. Then the backup program released its RAM and went back to sleep. Or your backup program briefly ran in the background, and did a huge number of file checksums and comparisons and created large RAM based data structures, pushing other content to swap. The OS could see that there was suddenly a huge new demand on RAM, and moved some unused RAM content to swap in advanced of an expected need.
For example, maybe you started up Photoshop which had several large image files automatically reopen from a prior session. The OS can move to swap based on predictive measures. Based on what you describe in text and in the screen shot, I see nothing that is concerning.Īs to why swap was created when you assume you had free RAM. You would need to be monitoring the memory and swap usage as the swap file was created to have a chance to understand why the swap was created.
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