Q: Massive problem with memory usage
Hello ladies and gents!
Just before Christmas I bought my first MacbookPro 13" mid-2012 which is 2.5Ghz and 16gb RAM. Firstly it was just a toy since I've been using Windows for ages because of my work. After a while I've tried to make one or two projects on my mac and noticed it handles them quite nicely. I decided to move my entire workflow to mac and was more than happy with the results. Until last month.
I have no friggin' idea why but my macbook started to work terribly slowly. Nothing unextraordinary happened, there were no new apps or nothing like this. I've tried to manage the kernel_task problem but it helped only for a few days. Even if I kill the photoshop and illustrator processes, mac still uses more than 9GBs of RAM which drives me crazy. My Windows machine is only 12GB of RAM and same specs as my mac and it KICKS OFF it's butt!
What should I do? I love the OS X workflow but my clients won't accept delays any more!
EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48)
Report generated August 8, 2014 at 2:42:06 PM GMT+2
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
16 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)
Color LCD 1280 x 800
DELL U2412M 1920 x 1200
System Software:
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 3 days 21:12:9
Disk Information:
HITACHI HTS725050A7E630 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (95.28 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8 disk1 : (846.4 MB)
bikesimon@wp.pl (disk1s0) /Volumes/bikesimon@wp.pl: 571.6 MB (Zero KB free)
USB Information:
Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTH-460
NOVATEK USB Keyboard
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
[not loaded] com.wacom.kext.pentablet (5.3.3 - SDK 10.8) Support
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[running] com.tvmobili.tvmobilisvcd.plist Support
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist Support
[running] com.tvmobili.artwork.plist Support
[running] com.wacom.pentablet.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
Alfred 2
Internet Plug-ins:
WacomNetscape: Version: 2.1.0-1 - SDK 10.8 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 Support
WacomTabletPlugin: Version: WacomTabletPlugin 2.1.0.2 Support
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30214.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
MagicPrefs Support
PenTablet Support
Time Machine:
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
9% Spotify Helper EH
4% WindowServer
3% Spotify
1% coreaudiod
1% mds_stores
Top Processes by Memory:
2.61 GB Adobe Photoshop CC 2014
2.34 GB Adobe Illustrator
1.07 GB firefox
279 MB PluginProcess
229 MB WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information:
258 MB Free RAM
6.82 GB Active RAM
6.96 GB Inactive RAM
1.40 GB Wired RAM
19.76 GB Page-ins
70 MB Page-outs
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
Posted on Aug 8, 2014 6:30 AM







