MacBook comes up with low memory

Mac book comes up with low memory and low virtual memory how can I solve this have used Clean my Mac X no good




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Posted on Sep 27, 2020 8:39 AM

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Posted on Sep 27, 2020 9:34 AM

First I suggest that you completely remove any "cleaner" apps, like Clean My Mac" from your notebook. These apps tend to cause more issues, than resolve them, and are completely unnecessary


Then run an EtreCheck report, and optionally, post it here if you need assistance with interpreting the results.


Ref: Using EtreCheck to Troubleshoot Potential… - Apple Community

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Sep 27, 2020 9:34 AM in response to DominicSooty

First I suggest that you completely remove any "cleaner" apps, like Clean My Mac" from your notebook. These apps tend to cause more issues, than resolve them, and are completely unnecessary


Then run an EtreCheck report, and optionally, post it here if you need assistance with interpreting the results.


Ref: Using EtreCheck to Troubleshoot Potential… - Apple Community

Sep 29, 2020 9:29 AM in response to Tesserax

Thank you so much and apologise to Lanny for spelling his name incorrectly. Shows how bad my eyes are. We replaced our MacBook in 2012 with Apple when it was damaged so I guess they gave me a 2010 new one then.

I am having trouble turning the device back on because of the problems. I think we have decided to get a new one when feasible but thank you so much for your help, kindness and patience. I felt less comfortable talking to Lanny but I have to remember you are all volunteers.

DominicSummers

Sep 29, 2020 8:28 AM in response to DominicSooty

As Lanny has identified from the report, the issue is directly related to the limited amount of RAM that your notebook has. Notice the "Swapped Used" item? It should be zero, or very close to zero. Instead, as you can see, it read 1.51. GB. What this indicates is that the apps that you are running do not find enough RAM memory to use and have to rely on swapping out to the notebook's hard drive. This slows things down significantly.


Related to this, note the Read/Write values (93 & 85 MB/s) are relatively low, but typical for of older HDDs, compared to SSDs.


This leads to, if you want to increase the performance of this notebook, you basically have two choices:

  1. Add more RAM & replace the system drive with an SSD, or
  2. Get a newer notebook with both of these already equipped.

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