How to display Macintosh memory usage
Looking to understand memory usage, hopefully on a per-thread basis, for my new Macintosh mini. Any guidance will be much appreciated.
Activity Monitor breaks down memory usage by process – but not on a per-thread basis within a process. That may be enough if you are just trying to figure out which applications are memory hogs.
Note that the memory listed under "Cached Files" is memory that could be allocated to applications at the drop of a hat. Completely idle (free) RAM doesn't do anything for you. So the Mac puts free RAM to work to cache data - the idea being that if it needs the data before it needs the RAM, it can save a slow trip to a SSD or HDD to get it.
