The system data under storage and general in system settings does not calculate the system data. In fact it will continue to calculate endlessly for hours and days until I manually stop it.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 15.1
Thank you! That shows at least two issues:
—Sometimes apps may report "low memory" when they really mean "low disk space," which appears to be your major issue:
Drives:
disk0 - APPLE SSD AP1024M 1.00 TB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)
Internal PCI-Express 8.0 GT/s x4 NVM Express
disk0s1 - EFI [EFI] 315 MB
disk0s2 [APFS Container] 1.00 TB
disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 1.00 TB (Shared by 6 volumes)
⚠️disk1s1 - Macintosh HD - Data (APFS) [APFS Virtual drive] (907.37 GB used) ⚠️
You have less than 10 percent free space. Offloading about 100GB of stuff should help performance.
—Remove Piriform CCleaner. Since 2000, the macOS has been self-cleaning and self-maintaining. It needs NO outside help. Many Mac performance issues are traced to useless third-party "cleaning" apps interfering with the elegant automation you paid Apple to include in the OS.
The other issue is that early version of CCleaner, which were ported from Windows, could not distinguish important Mac system files from junk, and deleted them. Ouch.
Thank you! That shows at least two issues:
—Sometimes apps may report "low memory" when they really mean "low disk space," which appears to be your major issue:
Drives:
disk0 - APPLE SSD AP1024M 1.00 TB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)
Internal PCI-Express 8.0 GT/s x4 NVM Express
disk0s1 - EFI [EFI] 315 MB
disk0s2 [APFS Container] 1.00 TB
disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 1.00 TB (Shared by 6 volumes)
⚠️disk1s1 - Macintosh HD - Data (APFS) [APFS Virtual drive] (907.37 GB used) ⚠️
You have less than 10 percent free space. Offloading about 100GB of stuff should help performance.
—Remove Piriform CCleaner. Since 2000, the macOS has been self-cleaning and self-maintaining. It needs NO outside help. Many Mac performance issues are traced to useless third-party "cleaning" apps interfering with the elegant automation you paid Apple to include in the OS.
The other issue is that early version of CCleaner, which were ported from Windows, could not distinguish important Mac system files from junk, and deleted them. Ouch.
Remove the cleaner app, and free up some storage, as mentioned above. Cleaner apps inexplicably tend to go to war with caches, which tends to be a performance-undesirable behavior of the cleaning tools. Some cleaner apps have caused storage corruptions, as well. I'm wondering whether this cleaner app is feuding with Spotlight search, too.
Google apps also have a reputation for using a whole lot of system resources doing who-knows-what, too. If you don't need those and if aggregate system performance is down, consider disabling or removing those apps.
Between the Google apps and Microsoft Office, this Mac is well loaded for the memory and storage configured. If not arguably overloaded.
If you want folks here to look at the Mac configuration, restsrt this Mac, and then please download and run (free) EtreCheck, and when the run completes share the report to the clipboard. Then open a new reply here, and press the additional-text button that looks like a printed page to get a text input box big enough to paste the hardware and software configuration report here, and paste and post that report here. And provide some specific details on the particular symptoms or concerns.
so you are out of memory, and you ask your Mac "How out-of memory am I"? it can't respond, because it is out of memory.
Why is this in any way surprising?
You will be less 'out of memory' after a Restart.
Thank you Mr. Hoffman!
MAC running out of memory and endless "calculating" spinner in storage settings! Help!
