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What are the signs you need more ram....
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Aloha Bigtree,
How about when your RAM isn't already maxed out? hehehe
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Now that's the most honest answer yet.
When you are using applications and they are very slow to respond - as people have said - beachballing. Opening different apps, eg Neo Office, Firefox, iTunes etc etc, made the computer run very slow.
I upgraded from 512MB to 2GB recently and noticed a massive difference - I can even use XP when I need to now, whereas before it was terminally slow.
If you have iStatPro widget (free) that also shows you how much memory is being used.
I upgraded from 512MB to 2GB recently and noticed a massive difference - I can even use XP when I need to now, whereas before it was terminally slow.
If you have iStatPro widget (free) that also shows you how much memory is being used.
When OSX is forced to write memory from the RAM to the hard drive, that slows down the performance of the machine (because hard drives are way slower to respond than RAM). This happens more frequently the more you multitask on your machine (keep multiple programs running at once), and when you use large programs that handle large amounts of data (Photoshop, digital video and audio production, etc).
In your Activity Monitor, the Page Ins and Page Outs are reported. What is important is the ratio between the two, not the absolute numbers.
You are aiming for your Page Out number to be about 10% or less of the Page In number. 5% would be ideal. If your Page Outs start creeping above 20% of Page Ins, it means you are regularly overflowing the available RAM, and getting slow downs. Time to consider a RAM upgrade.
In your Activity Monitor, the Page Ins and Page Outs are reported. What is important is the ratio between the two, not the absolute numbers.
You are aiming for your Page Out number to be about 10% or less of the Page In number. 5% would be ideal. If your Page Outs start creeping above 20% of Page Ins, it means you are regularly overflowing the available RAM, and getting slow downs. Time to consider a RAM upgrade.
iFizz said:
LOL, I'm sorry...I was trying to make a joke, as if to say "I don't have any Page Outs, what are they?" But, I'm sure someone here benefited from that definition. Thanks, and sorry for that...
If you see a lot of the spinning beach ball, or applications bounce a while in the dock before finally opening up.
LOL, I'm sorry...I was trying to make a joke, as if to say "I don't have any Page Outs, what are they?" But, I'm sure someone here benefited from that definition. Thanks, and sorry for that...
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I want my electrons back!