# Typical RAM usage on M1 iMac?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/typical-ram-usage-on-m1-imac/722737>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** server-mac\
**Created:** [June 15, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/typical-ram-usage-on-m1-imac/722737 "2021-06-15T18:53:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![tmthylance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@tmthylance](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tmthylance)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/typical-ram-usage-on-m1-imac/722737/1 "2021-06-15T18:53:33Z")

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New to Plex. I set it up yesterday and libraries have totally synced. All apps are working, both local and remote. I checked RAM stats last night and was blown away. I kept checking and now mid-day the next day they are still super high.

Is this normal? Just sitting there, no server use? Just sitting idle?

macOS 11.4 on M1 iMac, 16 GB unified RAM

![](https://i.imgur.com/sB1QbkI.png)

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**Author:** ![pshanew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pshanew/32/160555_2.png) [@pshanew](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pshanew)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/typical-ram-usage-on-m1-imac/722737/2 "2021-06-15T19:14:44Z")

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It’s not apples-to-apples, but here’s what my macOS 10.15.7 Intel Mac Mini 16GB server shows right now (streaming one live OTA TV channel):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/8/f/8ffd8c495f7ec9f6e1c92e86f3b01d721f12c21a.png)

It may be more useful to see if another user can post what they see on their M1-based Mac (perhaps Rosetta 2 adds some memory overhead).

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**Author:** ![tmthylance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@tmthylance](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tmthylance)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/typical-ram-usage-on-m1-imac/722737/3 "2021-06-15T20:53:42Z")

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WOW! Huge difference.

Edited thread title. 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/typical-ram-usage-on-m1-imac/722737/4 "2021-09-13T20:54:28Z")

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