Will 4gb be enough?

[Meister]

Good Afternoon,

Well, I had intentionally put stress on memory by opening so many tabs, as this was confirmed when I checked out the memory in Activity Monitor. Pressure graph was in the yellow with sections in red and heap loads of swap used. By the way, before switching to Mail I paused each video in order to reduce cpu load.

I've just repeated the experiment and this time I did not get such a long delay. Memory pressure was still in the yellow and spiking red, but switching between apps was clunky. I imagine rightly or wrongly that things would be mitigated by a faster ssd in more recent Airs, and I suppose whether working on a Mac with such high memory pressure is acceptable or not is a personal preference. Anyway, 20 tabs of video is something I would not normally be doing so I'm not really going to delve into this anymore!

b en

Sounds like you ran low on ram.
Did you just run youtube and mail?
A faster ssd barely substitutes for ram, that is a bit of a myth.

 

[lazydog]

Hi

Sorry I can't remember for sure if it was just mail but I think it was.

I thought I did a screen shot of the memory activity window just before it went pear shape but I can't find it.

b e n