HT2353: Viewing Mac OS X memory usage and installed RAM
Learn about Viewing Mac OS X memory usage and installed RAM
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Jul 22, 2013 9:21 AM in response to BreezyHaniby BDAqua,★HelpfulHello,
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free Disk space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?
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Jul 22, 2013 10:19 AM in response to BDAquaby BreezyHani,I went to Disk Utility and it had no details about the disk so I guess it didn't fail. I have alot of free space. I open console and there were messages but there weren't any suspicous repeating messages. There were 0bytes under pageouts.
Should I just restore the computer? If so, how do I backup my pictures,papers,etc?
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Jul 22, 2013 10:44 AM in response to BreezyHaniby BDAqua,You need an external drive to backup your stuff first off.
Might try this first...
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive, & clearing cache files.)
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