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my mac since one week is VERY SLOW. The MB free are 350 now. After cleaning they become 1000 but after few minutes they fall down to 2/300 AGAIN.

It's impossible now to work with.

Thank you for helping!

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Sep 11, 2012 3:46 AM

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Sep 11, 2012 9:27 AM in response to nicolakk

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What is interesting is the relative size (in fractions of a pie) of these colored areas. The chart from the article shows a quarter of a pie of green, a good amount.


We worry when the green becomes an insignificant sliver, say less than 1/8 pie.


Page out is a number (not a graph) just to the left of the pie. It is also described in the text of the article. It tells you how much the Hard Drive is being used to give the appearance of "infinite" memory.

Sep 11, 2012 12:42 PM in response to nicolakk

4GB is very light on RAM and I would avoid - you don't need or want Free Mem.


Still not telling what model/year, 2008?


If all you do is chat, email, no graphic editing or heavy lifting.


You know each new OS makes more d3mands on hardware, sometimes a browser is going to hold onto 1GB RAM - and need to purge caches.


add 4GB RAM. helps and can't hurt and just let OS X run. Might want to move system on a new drive, move data to a new drive also, keep them separate.

Sep 11, 2012 12:59 PM in response to nicolakk

nicolakk wrote:


.... 2+2 ...


So that means you have 4 GB of RAM...


Would suggest going to 8 GB.. if not more...



See this Link to check which RAM is for your Mac...


http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/



It is Important to get the Correct and Matching RAM



For best performance, fill all memory slots, installing an equal memory module in each slot.



That site also has videos on how to Install RAM should you need it...



Here are Apples Instructions... Installing RAM


Desktop http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1423

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