Is RAM my issue??

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Is RAM my issue??

Hiya i'm having some problems - hoping for advice as have no clue 😕. Just upgraded to yosemite & garageband 10.3 but now keeps bringing up system overload 10011 or that its too slow - i used memory clean which helped for a while but now even if it says i got 1.50gb (out of my 4gb) free it still stops during playback.

I am a bit tight on cash & desperate to get on with my music so want to make the right decision. Do u think upgrading to 8gb will solve my issue or is there other things i can try or diagnostics i can run? is it maybe something to do with yosemite?

i've cleared over 100gb Hardrive space and i checked CPU activity which at max peak was 55%.

During my session just now my entire system just shut down & then restarted....which seems worrying!!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Drea 🙂😕

Posted on Jan 19, 2015 9:25 AM

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Nubz N.

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Jan 20, 2015 10:54 AM in response to DreaDreamer

Hi DreaDreamer,

Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.

If you wonder if you have enough memory, check the use while running with Activity Monitor.

OS X Yosemite: If your Mac runs slowly

Use Activity Monitor to see if a particular app or activity is making a large demand on your Mac.

There's more details on Activity Monitor here.

How to use Activity Monitor - Apple Support

Check out the Memory section. Note you can click on a column header to sort by that column (like "Memory").

And see if this helps.

GarageBand '11: Optimize GarageBand performance

Best regards,

Nubz

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