RAM keeps dropping

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RAM keeps dropping

Greetings,

My MBP has been acting up lately. It's more often than not that i get three to four seconds of spinning beach ball when clicking anything in Safari, iTunes is really slow and there are similar spinning beach ball pauses. I use an app called Memory Clean and it's pretty common for me to have only Safari and iTunes open and the app says I have less than 25MB of RAM available. Below are the specs:

MPB (17-inch, Mid 2010)

Yosemite 10.10.2

2.66 GHz Intel Core i7

8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB

iTunes Library is 126G

500G HD with 35G available

I check and repair the preferences using disk utility regularly. I open activity monitor, but I have no idea what I'm looking at. I've clicked off all the checkboxes that were available in the login preferences.

Any suggestions?

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,1

Processor Name: Intel Core i7

Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

Posted on Feb 26, 2015 11:52 AM

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Answer 1

OGELTHORPE

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Feb 26, 2015 11:57 AM in response to lapresle

Boot into the recovery partition and select Disk Utility from the 4 option menu.

Run Disk Utility>First Aiid, Verify and Repair.

If the disk cannot be repaired, it will have to be replaced.

Get rid of Memory Clean. It will have no positive affect on you MBP.

Ciao

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Answer 2

lapresle Author

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Feb 26, 2015 12:15 PM in response to OGELTHORPE

Thanks Oglethorpe. I'm not sure how to boot into the recovery partition, but i'll search and see what I can find. Thanks for your help.

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Answer 3

OGELTHORPE

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Feb 26, 2015 12:59 PM in response to lapresle

Here are the instructions:

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4718

Ciao.

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Answer 4

John Galt

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Feb 26, 2015 2:10 PM in response to lapresle

lapresle wrote:

... I've clicked off all the checkboxes that were available in the login preferences.

I'm not sure what you mean by that, but it's one of many uncertainties EtreCheck was designed to address.

Read about it here. It contains a link to download EtreCheck. Do not download it from anywhere else (such as may be found by following the results of an Internet search).

Don't use Memory Clean or anything like it.

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