iStat Menu/activity monitor - what does this mean?

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Hi there

istat

My 2011 iMac started slowing down to an unusable crawl. iStat menu shows the above for Memory.

It’s seemingly a 1Password issue. But what exactly does the 42.48GB mean under ‘Processes’?

Thanks all!

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I believe it means that 1Password is using a whoppingly huge amount of RAM, which is almost certainly why the computer is running slowly. Maybe a silly question, but when was the last time you shutdown your computer (not put it to sleep, but actually shut it down)?

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Restarted about a week ago.

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I’d restart again and monitor 1Password’s memory usage with time.

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This happened to me once last year.
I just quit the 1p processes, restarted 1P and stop-started the syncing process again.

If that does not fix it: just email 1P support, they usually reply within a day.

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I’ve restarted and it sorted things. What does the 43GB value mean though? Is that virtual memory use from hard drive?

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That’s its total memory usage, including memory paged out to disk (what people usually mean when they say virtual memory).