Memory Snapshot: Top Consumers and Cleanup | Generated by AI
Here’s your current memory snapshot on this 16 GB Mac:
Free pages: ~80 MB (very low, swapping is active)
Top consumers now:
| App | Memory | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Safari + WebKit | ~3.4 GB (15 WebContent procs) | ⚠️ Quit or close tabs |
| ~1.2 GB (16 processes) | ❌ Kill for +1.2 GB | |
| Docker / nginx / Redis / PG | ~0.8 GB | Minor |
| GitHub Desktop | ~0.2 GB | Minor |
| Zed | ~0.2 GB | Minor |
| Ghostty + Python | ~0.4 GB | Your current session |
| Spotlight | ~0.1 GB (idle) | ✅ Already tamed |
Next cleanup, ranked by impact:
-
Quit Safari — closable tabs alone freed ~13.5 GB before. Currently 3.4 GB in WebKit. If you Safari (or close heavy tabs), biggest single gain.
- Kill WeChat — 1.2 GB. Command:
pkill -9 WeChat pkill -9 WeChatAppEx - GitHub Desktop — small but if unused:
pkill -9 GitHub - Docker — if no containers are actively needed,
killall Dockerfrees background processes too but remember Docker daemon + VM uses more than the 0.8 GB shown here (the VM allocation isn’t in RSS).
The low-hanging fruit is WeChat (1.2 GB) and Safari (3.4 GB). Want me to kill any of these?