![]() Therefore, despite what you might think, even while iMac’s memory usage was at critical levels, and Memory Monitor was working hard to free up RAM, it never used more than 10% of the CPU’s processing power and 50 MB of RAM. Unobtrusive app with an interest on keeping your Mac running as smooth as possibleĪs far as we’ve been able to observe during our tests, Memory Monitor requires very little system resources, as you would expect from an app dedicated to memory monitoring and optimizing tasks. As you would expect, Memory Monitor also comes with three interface themes that cover most environment lighting situations, an even more compact interface named “Simplified mode,” and, of course, the rather cute, animated icon that displays the memory situation with the help of colors. The Memory Monitor app also comes with a secondary information menu that displays the number of memory slots that your Mac has, all the installed RAM modules and a summary with the available memory. One thing that is impossible to be disappointed about is how clearly Memory Monitor displays relevant information about your Mac’s RAM usage: you get an all-encompassing pie chart that breaks down the memory allocation between Cache, Wired Memory, Compressed, and App Memory, and also views which are the apps that draw the most out of your Mac’s memory resources. Unobtrusive and user-friendly OS X system utility This is an appropriate time to point out that Memory Monitor will not help you make your apps snappier in all cases with a click of a button because it can’t perform miracles, as there’s no real substitute for adding more RAM to your system. When compared with other similar apps, we have to point out that also noteworthy is the fact that, in most situations when your system has small to medium memory usage levels, Memory Monitor manages to smoothly free up RAM without chocking your Mac in the process.īecause there’s no getting around certain physical limits, when the memory strains reach critical levels, Memory Monitor either struggles a bit or, in some cases, it practically waves the white flag. ![]() Not perfect, but it will prove itself useful for most OS X users out there Truth be told, Memory Monitor works exactly as advertised and much better than expected in most situations. This fact, coupled with its ability to be easily setup to automatically optimize and free up memory by purging unused processes, already make it one of the best apps in its category. Without any exaggeration, Memory Monitor’s best feature has, in fact, nothing to do with its ability to monitor the RAM usage, but instead, more with its capability to free up RAM memory within seconds after clicking the “Optimize” button found in the center console. In essence, Memory Monitor is a lightweight OS X app that takes the info from the Activity Monitor and presents it to you in the menu bar, in a more visual form, with the help of an interactive colored pie chart.ĭespite its self-explanatory name, Memory Monitor is actually much more than a simple memory monitoring app for Macs. This is where Memory Monitor bravely comes into play, with a compact yet very intuitive user interface. Very efficient memory monitor and cleaner for your Mac Not to say that its intelligent memory management doesn’t do a good job, but the reality is that most users don’t run it on Mac Pros with 3.5 GHZ 6-Core processors and 32 GB of RAM. This can be useful if you’re troubleshooting resources or trying to close an unresponsive app.Long gone are the days when Macs used to run, purring smoothly, with no more than 4 GB of RAM, because, with more and more resource avid apps coming our way, chances are that at some point in time you have experienced moments when OS X wasn’t in its best form in terms of speed. This will shut down the process immediately. If you need to shut down a process, click Quit from this window and confirm or Force Quit. what larger program or background process is using it. If you see a process listed that you cannot readily identify, you can use this window to find out the ‘owner’, i.e. RAM is also extremely expensive compared to other types of storage. RAM is extremely fast compared to other types of storage, both latency-wise and bandwidth-wise. A new window will appear listing the process, parent process, percentage of CPU it is using, the user who is utilizing the process and a range of statistics around that process. There are two major misconceptions that are often seen in relation to memory management: Full RAM is bad. If you want to know more about a specific process in the list, just double click on it. ![]() The other side of the window is a list of currently active threads and active processes. An idle process is a low-level software loop that keeps it occupied when it is not required by other processes. Computer processors cannot sit and do nothing or they lock up. The idle process is a software loop that keeps the CPU working when not required. ![]()
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