Major delays on Mac Mini

Brian Hope1 wrote:

I will endeavour to watch Activity Monitor from time to time in the hope that I will learn something productive, but as I said the speed of information change on screen is diifficult for the old eyes to handle.

What you should be looking at is the very bottom of the window. Click the tab for "System Memory" and you will see exactly what memory is in use as well as the paging activity as it moves "pages" from RAM to your hard drive (virtual memory). When it stabilizes you can take a screen shot and post it here for the experts to tell you if all is working properly.

Brian Hope1 wrote:

I have my suspicions that this all started with the latest updater.

The only issue I'm aware of with 10.7.4 only affects those users who are trying to use their computer to share the internet with other devices instead of using a WiFi route such as an Airport Base Station.

Brian Hope1 wrote:

Thank you MadMacs0. Dealing with the 8:31 message, I don't have any other Mac devices other than an iPod and an iPod Touch, both gifts from my children when they upgraded, so prior to IOS. The Touch is used to get Mail via Wireless Router and Airport and is the only external connection. Does that make a difference?

It makes a difference with regard to the 10.7.4 issue that I mentioned. Users that have wireless routers are not experiencing this problem.

Regarding ther 8:27 message, here is a screenshot of the Activity Monitor but it never does 'stabilize' hope this gives some idea. Big users are the Browser and Mail app. and both were running when this was taken.

The bottom panel with the pie chart is what I meant for you to post and that should stabilze. I note that it doesn't show much Free memory right now, and that seems unusual to me, but I have to admit I don't pay much attention to this aspect of my computing.

Since you posted the entire window I can see you have it sorted by "%CPU" and I thought your concern was in the amount of memory being used. You should click on the "RSIZE" column a couple of times to see the big RAM consumers at any given time and that should not change much either.

On the other hand, FireFox using 82% of your CPU cycles will be a problem if it stays at that level a lot.

Brian I don't know if the Combo updatere will run at

this point but I see no harm in trying it. The Genius Bar

has Mini cables, monitor, etc. so you might consider

making an appointment for them to look the little box

over and if needed maybe they could add some memory

while you wait.

Take a look at this guidance to another user asking about memory issues Re: Web browser leakage uses up almost all memory

Brian, take a bunch of pics of everything.

If not digital, get prints before unplugging

anything.

Al best, Tom

Brian, here's an entertaining video that might help you

get more out of Activity Monitor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hJd7wSgOdI&feature=related

As for memory leakage, it is an issue but Activity Monitor itself

can't hog as much as it would take to stall out your Mini.

By the way, I don't think you ever mentioned how full your

hard drive is. Check the video on this point, too.

Brian Hope1 wrote:

The other morning when I first switched the machine on, with nothing other than Activity Monitor actually switch on, I got this;

I don't know what "this" is as your image didn't come through.

You are operating with the bare minimum RAM needed to run Lion, so these problems are not going away until you get more.

You only have 2GB of RAM and it will allow 8GB. Install more RAM!