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Q: Activity monitor memory usage pie chart gone?

What happened to the pie chart that sits in the dock that shows memory usage?  I found this very useful in the past, and Mavericks seems to have removed it from the dock options.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 26, 2013 9:50 AM

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  • by Denico,Helpful

    Denico Denico Oct 26, 2013 9:55 AM in response to mbetesh
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    Oct 26, 2013 9:55 AM in response to mbetesh

    Hi..

     

    Yes, Activity monitor have been redesigned, and that feature is gone.

    Sadly, i used it to. :-)

     

     

     

    Regards

    Dennis

  • by macjack,Solvedanswer

    macjack macjack Oct 26, 2013 9:55 AM in response to mbetesh
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    Oct 26, 2013 9:55 AM in response to mbetesh

    Yes, it's gone. Because of the improved way (compressed memory) Mavericks allocates memory it seems to be deemed no longer necessary.

  • by Mith_maker,

    Mith_maker Mith_maker Jan 17, 2014 11:16 AM in response to mbetesh
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    Jan 17, 2014 11:16 AM in response to mbetesh

    "Yes, it's gone. Because of the improved way (compressed memory) Mavericks allocates memory it seems to be deemed no longer necessary."

     

    Well, that may be true overall, but not for my older laptop.  I still need to monitor my memory.

  • by cbs20,

    cbs20 cbs20 Jan 17, 2014 11:22 AM in response to Mith_maker
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    Jan 17, 2014 11:22 AM in response to Mith_maker

    Now monitor the memory pressure chart if its running Mavericks.

  • by Mith_maker,

    Mith_maker Mith_maker Jan 17, 2014 12:35 PM in response to mbetesh
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    Jan 17, 2014 12:35 PM in response to mbetesh

    Thanks, cbs20.  In the past, if my Percent Free was low, I knew I had to reboot.  What should I watch within Memory Pressure?

  • by cbs20,

    cbs20 cbs20 Jan 17, 2014 12:39 PM in response to Mith_maker
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    Jan 17, 2014 12:39 PM in response to Mith_maker

    If it's green then everything is fine, if it's yellow the memory is being stressed, and if it's red there is a problem and you should probably increase the RAM in your machine if possible.

  • by Michael Black,

    Michael Black Michael Black Jan 17, 2014 12:42 PM in response to Mith_maker
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    Jan 17, 2014 12:42 PM in response to Mith_maker

    To clarify, if you see the memory pressure graph bars going red, that means you are now actually swapping out to disc.  Ultimatly, if you are actually paging out to disc frequently, the only long term solution is more RAM.

     

    see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5890 for info about Mavericks' new activity monitor display.

  • by Mith_maker,

    Mith_maker Mith_maker Feb 6, 2014 10:19 AM in response to cbs20
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    Feb 6, 2014 10:19 AM in response to cbs20

    Well, I've been watching this a while now, and I think Apple got something calibrated wrong, or the pie chart monitored something else.  Even with Memory Pressure green, my computer gets too slow, and when I reboot, it is fine again.  The only other issue I've had is that I sometimes get the message that my Start Up Disk is full.

  • by cbs20,

    cbs20 cbs20 Feb 6, 2014 10:26 AM in response to Mith_maker
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    Feb 6, 2014 10:26 AM in response to Mith_maker

    That means your problem isn't memory and is caused by something else. Start a new thread and post an Etrecheck report. Download Etrecheck and run the application. Post the report in your new thread. Also, check your hard drive space. How much is free and what is the total size?

  • by buffing1,

    buffing1 buffing1 Mar 27, 2014 10:13 AM in response to Mith_maker
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    Mar 27, 2014 10:13 AM in response to Mith_maker

    Actually, if you read what memory compression does you'll find out that it uses your CPU to relieve some of the pressure from RAM. This is great with a newer computer that has a fast CPU but if you're like me and using a 2.66 Ghz i5 processor you'll find that it makes your life slower than without compression.

     

    I took a chance and turned compression off using Terminal and my machine is MUCH faster now. All I have to do is watch Memory Usage just like I used to and restart Photoshop when it gets filled up since that's always the big hog for me.

     

    You can google "turn off memory compression" and you'll find the code to pop into your Terminal. There's probably some risk of file corruption but I don't store mission critical files on my system drive and use Time Machine so I feel that the speed is worth the risk until I upgrade my machine.

     

    I do miss the piechart though and wish I could get it back.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Mar 27, 2014 10:31 AM in response to buffing1
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    Mar 27, 2014 10:31 AM in response to buffing1

    Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.


    Feedback

  • by buffing1,

    buffing1 buffing1 Mar 27, 2014 2:09 PM in response to Eric Root
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    Mar 27, 2014 2:09 PM in response to Eric Root

    I've never sent them feedback before. What way would you say is the most effective?

  • by darlingdearie,

    darlingdearie darlingdearie Mar 30, 2014 8:41 AM in response to Michael Black
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    Mar 30, 2014 8:41 AM in response to Michael Black

    I don't have a dock icon called "memory pressure graph".

    I have

     

    CPU Usage

    CPU History

    Network Usage

    Disk Activity

     

    so it's hard to know what you're taking about when referring the the "memory pressure graph".

     

    Please clarify. Thanks!

  • by Bmachine,

    Bmachine Bmachine May 4, 2014 3:31 PM in response to darlingdearie
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    May 4, 2014 3:31 PM in response to darlingdearie

    Uhhh, I know it's a bit late for this but...

     

     

    darlingdearie wrote:

     

    I don't have a dock icon called "memory pressure graph".

    I have

     

    CPU Usage

    CPU History

    Network Usage

    Disk Activity

     

    so it's hard to know what you're taking about when referring the the "memory pressure graph".

     

    Please clarify. Thanks!

     

    ... it sounds like you have a previous version of the Activity Monitor.  The one that comes with 10.9 has

     

    CPU

    Memory
    Energy

    Disk

    Network

     

    The memory pressure is at the bottom of the Memory tab.

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