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How can I speed up my iMac? It seems to read or write on the hard drive all the time even I have 32GB or ram. ANd in general it is much slower than Big Sur. I did the report. see the added text. I hope somebody wiser than me can help.
iMac 27″, macOS 12.0
Monterey will not slow down the computer, however I see 2 major issues.
Monterey will not slow down the computer, however I see 2 major issues.
Lets try this, please read Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used and begin using Activity Monitor to manage your RAM.
Thank you for your kind response. I keep all y files in iCloud, which works perfectly well. So, I don't care if my hard drive crashes because there is nothing that needs to be permanently stored.
The problem has been consistent and I get several times a day an alert that I need to force quit Pages because it reaches the limits of application RAM (in most cases Pages is using about 25GB of my 32GB). This should not be the case. My document is only 18 pages long and has very few graphics and is only 3.5 MB in size. So, I guess there must be something going on.
Please remember that iCloud is NOT a backup tool. iCloud does not keep Mac OS backed up, your apps are not stored in iCloud nor any settings. The documents you store in iCloud are fine however I still recommend that you use a backup tool to backup Mac OS, your apps and your settings.
As for your RAM issues, are you getting the amount of RAM used by Pages from Activity Monitor or are you using some other method?
The alert I keep getting is a pop-up telling me that I should Force Quit Pages because is using too much memory, i.e. about 25GB. I don’t understand what’s going on.
My iMac is slow after the Monterey update
