Activity monitor memory usage pie chart gone?

Hi..

Yes, Activity monitor have been redesigned, and that feature is gone.

Sadly, i used it to. :-)

Regards

Dennis

Yes, it's gone. Because of the improved way (compressed memory) Mavericks allocates memory it seems to be deemed no longer necessary.

"Yes, it's gone. Because of the improved way (compressed memory) Mavericks allocates memory it seems to be deemed no longer necessary."

Well, that may be true overall, but not for my older laptop. I still need to monitor my memory.

Now monitor the memory pressure chart if its running Mavericks.

Thanks, cbs20. In the past, if my Percent Free was low, I knew I had to reboot. What should I watch within Memory Pressure?

If it's green then everything is fine, if it's yellow the memory is being stressed, and if it's red there is a problem and you should probably increase the RAM in your machine if possible.

To clarify, if you see the memory pressure graph bars going red, that means you are now actually swapping out to disc. Ultimatly, if you are actually paging out to disc frequently, the only long term solution is more RAM.

see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5890 for info about Mavericks' new activity monitor display.

Well, I've been watching this a while now, and I think Apple got something calibrated wrong, or the pie chart monitored something else. Even with Memory Pressure green, my computer gets too slow, and when I reboot, it is fine again. The only other issue I've had is that I sometimes get the message that my Start Up Disk is full.

That means your problem isn't memory and is caused by something else. Start a new thread and post an Etrecheck report. Download Etrecheck and run the application. Post the report in your new thread. Also, check your hard drive space. How much is free and what is the total size?

Actually, if you read what memory compression does you'll find out that it uses your CPU to relieve some of the pressure from RAM. This is great with a newer computer that has a fast CPU but if you're like me and using a 2.66 Ghz i5 processor you'll find that it makes your life slower than without compression.

I took a chance and turned compression off using Terminal and my machine is MUCH faster now. All I have to do is watch Memory Usage just like I used to and restart Photoshop when it gets filled up since that's always the big hog for me.

You can google "turn off memory compression" and you'll find the code to pop into your Terminal. There's probably some risk of file corruption but I don't store mission critical files on my system drive and use Time Machine so I feel that the speed is worth the risk until I upgrade my machine.

I do miss the piechart though and wish I could get it back.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

I've never sent them feedback before. What way would you say is the most effective?

I don't have a dock icon called "memory pressure graph".

I have

CPU Usage

CPU History

Network Usage

Disk Activity

so it's hard to know what you're taking about when referring the the "memory pressure graph".

Please clarify. Thanks!

Uhhh, I know it's a bit late for this but...

darlingdearie wrote:

I don't have a dock icon called "memory pressure graph".

I have

CPU Usage

CPU History

Network Usage

Disk Activity

so it's hard to know what you're taking about when referring the the "memory pressure graph".

Please clarify. Thanks!

... it sounds like you have a previous version of the Activity Monitor. The one that comes with 10.9 has

CPU

Memory
Energy

Disk

Network

The memory pressure is at the bottom of the Memory tab.

i miss activity monitor pie chart, i like to know how much disk space i have and how much i gain by deleating some items. what i did ,was download "disk doctor" from apple store. it tells you how much disk space you have, and when you clean things up it will show diskspace percentage.