Comments on: Does my mac need more memory?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:56:34 +0000

Thank you for this article!!!! SO informative and insightful. It answered all my questions and MORE. I am definitely bookmarking this and sending to friends or whoever has questions regarding RAM/memory in the future. I’ll be referring back to this in the future as well. Kudos!

By: Ki

Ki — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:41:41 +0000

I came across this article. Its clearly explained the differences, but it doesn’t show the reader how to determine when page out is too much,…Here is my situation, macbook pro mid 2010. stock RAM installed 4GB. OS.
Free: 1.33GB
Wired: 852.3MB
Active: 1.34GB
Inactive: 500MB
Used: 2.66GB
VM size: 215GB
Page ins: 1.31GB
Page outs: 905 MB
Swap used: 543.0 MB
HD: 250GB. Used: 167/ Free: 81GB

I’ve noticed my mb pro decline in performance. I don’t run heavy apps, mac is mostly used for web browsing and 1 game (Startcraft II). I seldom use final cut pro and aperture. What can i do to increase performance ?

Thanks.

By: Bruce A

Bruce A — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:22:22 +0000

I just purchased 16GM for an iMac 2011 2.7Ghz from Crucial. $126CDN incl.customs/tax.
Works like a charm. Bit of overkill but for this price it is worth it. Highly recommend Crucial.

By: Arthur G

Arthur G — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:38:43 +0000

My page outs is high 2.02GB and swap used is also 2.02GB but i have 1.15GB free out of my 3.75GB. What does this mean? Why is my page outs so high if i have a lot more free space than shown in the examples? Is there a way to clear out the page outs?
P.S. page ins:13.93GB not sure what this means

By: Katy

Katy — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:59:38 +0000

i just got my macbook pro today, it said that there was 500 GB of space, but now my system memory looks like the last screenshot above. Is this a problem?

By: betsy

betsy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:35:29 +0000

This was extremely helpful, exactly the information I needed. Thank you for posting.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:38:05 +0000

I’d post this question to the Apple Support Forums, or ring Apple as it sounds like a specific problem that might take a bit of troubleshooting.

Try ‘repair permissions’ from Disk Utility. That’s the first step for most problems.

Go to your ‘downloads’ folder in your documents folder in your home directory, do ‘Get Info’ and check your user (Me) has read and write permissions.

By: Jeet

Jeet — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:30:34 +0000

On the Disk Usage part of my activity monitor, it shows in green (free space) that I have 148.73 GB of unused space. The mac I have is OS X version 10.4.11. It has always caused me problems…. I hope you can help me. First of all I can’t download or save anything from documents to emails. Safari quits unexpectedly whenever I go on to youtube or even google. (When this happens it says: Safari quit unexpectedly. Reopen, Quit, or Report to mac). Some of the games I’ve downloaded through a CD quit as well. (When this happens it says: safari could not download the file because there is not enough free disk space. Try deleting documents or downloading to another file.) But how can I not have enough free space when the disk usage shows that I have 148.73 GB of free space!!! Please help as I have had this problem for more than 2 years. Thanks.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:12:17 +0000

This is hour hard drive full – not lack of RAM – delete some files! See this article:

http://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/how-to-free-up-some-hard-disk-space.html

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:38:35 +0000

I need some help. I am not much of a computer person. My desktop is a about 3 years old and is now telling me that the start up disk is full. I followed the instructions at the top checking the utilities folder and the circle graph shows very little memory. Also I cannot save any documents in Word. I would like to delete some stuff if I can rather than adding more RAM. Can I do this and how?
tks alot