Hi all,
I have a relatively old MBP which you can see the details in my signature below.
I've recently noticed that simple tasks in OS X are often "beach-balling" my machine for several seconds.
I fired up activity monitor and I realize that the windowserver process has 5.7GB of private memory, 8.6GB of total memory and 500MB of active memory.
This process accounts for 100% of my memory page-outs which is about 3.7GB total over the last 9 days.
I know windowserver is a controller process for all the drawing on screen for OS X. Though my machine has a relatively old video card - ATI X1600 Mobility with 128MB of video ram - it is far from being useless.
I know that windowserver delegates all the tasks to the processor and its RAM whenever a drawing task is not suitable for the graphics chip.
My OS X is fully updated and so is all my software. My machine is in perfect running condition and I perform maintenance and cleaning of both the hardware and software regularly. I have no processes like geekscript actions or wallpaper changes that hog my cpu and memory in the background.
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is this normal? The memory and processor usage seems very excessive for my machine.
Thanks
I have a relatively old MBP which you can see the details in my signature below.
I've recently noticed that simple tasks in OS X are often "beach-balling" my machine for several seconds.
I fired up activity monitor and I realize that the windowserver process has 5.7GB of private memory, 8.6GB of total memory and 500MB of active memory.
This process accounts for 100% of my memory page-outs which is about 3.7GB total over the last 9 days.
I know windowserver is a controller process for all the drawing on screen for OS X. Though my machine has a relatively old video card - ATI X1600 Mobility with 128MB of video ram - it is far from being useless.
I know that windowserver delegates all the tasks to the processor and its RAM whenever a drawing task is not suitable for the graphics chip.
My OS X is fully updated and so is all my software. My machine is in perfect running condition and I perform maintenance and cleaning of both the hardware and software regularly. I have no processes like geekscript actions or wallpaper changes that hog my cpu and memory in the background.
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is this normal? The memory and processor usage seems very excessive for my machine.
Thanks