LRC and LR - using a lot of RAM?

[Adamcski]

Just wondered if anyone else thinks or feels the same.

Doesn't matter which one I have open and use, or whether I am editing on my M4 16" Pro with 24 GB RAM or my ASUS with 32 GB RAM and 8 GB 3070TI, I find the RAM used can go anywhere between 6 GB and 15 GB. Seems to fluctuate a lot.

I am new to the MAC world, but it seems to use more RAM when I add more layers / masks and the super enhance (or whatever it is called - I only used this for testing) which I suppose is to be expected. Even the ASUS hits 85% RAM use and the GPU takes a beating at times.

Is this normal?

I was speaking to a mate of mine who also has a 24GB 16" MacBook pro (same as mine) and he also couldn't believe how much RAM it uses at times.

I have tried turning off the sync and things like that - just seems to be taking up a lot of resource recently? Or maybe I have only just started noticing. I do not get any issues with either system performance wise, although got about 2GB of swap on the mac during one silly test I did. Most of the time the memory pressure is green, but now and then I get an odd yellow spike for no apparent reason.

I am not worried about using the odd bit of swap memory as windows does something similar I am told and has done for years, so I don't get hung up about swap - but probably would if I was showing high yellow and red pressure constantly, which I haven't experienced.

I was looking at the new Studio as a desktop (was also considering a mini) for general family use and photography stuff - but wonder if the base 36 GB model is worth it or buy more RAM?

Thoughts from the pros and more mac savvy welcome.

 

[steve_lyt]

Lightroom will use as much ram as it needs , this is quicker than using the space on the hard drive as a swap file(buffer)

 

[Stephen L]

If it's not causing you any problems, why worry about it?

Macs are more "easy going" about RAM than Microsoft, but the usual tenet applies - buy as much memory as you can afford because a) it's not easy to add more later, and b) future-proofing.

 

[Son_of_Thor]

This isn't a Mac-specific issue - the Adobe CC suite seem to be horrendously inefficient memory hogs these days

 

[Adamcski]

I did some editing yesterday and the adobe RAM usage was 16.7 GB. I sent a friend of mine a screen shot (he has the same MB Pro). He just doesn't look and doesn't really care about the memory pressure. I get the odd spike of yellow now and then but no red and it soon reverts to green.