System Memory Questions

nextgenerationx · nextgenerationx #1 (**permalink**)

01-28-2010, 02:41 PM

Can you guys give me a better understanding of how this works, here is a screen shot. and i want to say wow with how much memory safari uses. But what i don't understand, I have 4 gigs. what is wired and inactive, wired isnt' taking much memory but inactive is. can someone please explain all this for me? thanks

pigoo3 · pigoo3 #2 (**permalink**)

01-28-2010, 03:18 PM

This should help:

Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor

- Nick

PeterD · PeterD #3 (**permalink**)

02-01-2010, 10:59 PM

I don't know if this is the correct place to post this but I hope someone can help. My Mac (Quad Core Intel Xeon with 6GB) is very sluggish. I open Activity monitor and it shows that CPU usage for User is 75% and for System it is 22%. However the Activity Monitor screen is blank. I have no idea what processes are running. Any ideas what is going on? Thanks for your help.
PeterD

pigoo3 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: May 20, 2008 Location: U.S. Posts: 20,667 Mac Specs: 13" MB 2.4ghz, 2gig ram, OS 10.7.4	01-28-2010, 03:18 PM This should help: Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor - Nick - Computer slow, too many "beachballs", read this: Beachballs - Computer seems slower than it used to? Read this for some speedup tips: Speedup - Almost full hard drive? Some solutions. Out of Space - Apple Battery Info. Battery
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