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boonebytes
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Hey all,
I'm originally from the PC world and used to know everything about my PC, but I decided it's time to expand to the Mac world. So far, I'm loving it, except when I run out of memory...
My Mac has 1 gb of RAM, but yet it seems to vanish quickly. Not sure exactly what's doing it, but when I go to the Activity Monitor, the kernel takes up most real memory (about 60-70 mb, sounds reasonable?) Freashly booting, I have around 400-500 mb free, but once I start doing stuff, the memory drops... and even when I quit my programs, the memory doesn't recover. In fact, I just added up my memory according to the activity monitor, and it seems to be about 500 mb used by applications, with about 100 mb free, so where's the other 400? I'm guessing around 100 mb is in the shared memory, but where's the rest?
I guess a better thing to ask is how can I reliably determine what applications are hogging all my real memory? I don't really like using the swap space, since it slows down my computer... Also, what changes can I make to increase the amount of free memory?
In case it helps, here's a list of applications I have installed, above the stuff included with my Mac:
-Adium
-Adium Book
-Firefox
-Flip4Mac
-Gizmo Project
-Growl
-JAlbum
-Logitech keyboard software
-Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection
-NeoOffice
-Onyx
-Palm Desktop
-PySol
-QuickSilver
-Skype
-Smultron
-Solitaire XL
-StuffIt 10.0
-Synergy
-TeamSpeex
-TinkerTool System (no changes made)
-VLC
-World of Warcraft
Dashboard Clients:
-miniFreeRAM
-Canada411
-CurrencyConverter
-Chi Pet
-StatCounter
-Swap Usage
-iCrono
-miniCPUUsage
Thanks for any help you can provide
I'm originally from the PC world and used to know everything about my PC, but I decided it's time to expand to the Mac world. So far, I'm loving it, except when I run out of memory...
My Mac has 1 gb of RAM, but yet it seems to vanish quickly. Not sure exactly what's doing it, but when I go to the Activity Monitor, the kernel takes up most real memory (about 60-70 mb, sounds reasonable?) Freashly booting, I have around 400-500 mb free, but once I start doing stuff, the memory drops... and even when I quit my programs, the memory doesn't recover. In fact, I just added up my memory according to the activity monitor, and it seems to be about 500 mb used by applications, with about 100 mb free, so where's the other 400? I'm guessing around 100 mb is in the shared memory, but where's the rest?
I guess a better thing to ask is how can I reliably determine what applications are hogging all my real memory? I don't really like using the swap space, since it slows down my computer... Also, what changes can I make to increase the amount of free memory?
In case it helps, here's a list of applications I have installed, above the stuff included with my Mac:
-Adium
-Adium Book
-Firefox
-Flip4Mac
-Gizmo Project
-Growl
-JAlbum
-Logitech keyboard software
-Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection
-NeoOffice
-Onyx
-Palm Desktop
-PySol
-QuickSilver
-Skype
-Smultron
-Solitaire XL
-StuffIt 10.0
-Synergy
-TeamSpeex
-TinkerTool System (no changes made)
-VLC
-World of Warcraft
Dashboard Clients:
-miniFreeRAM
-Canada411
-CurrencyConverter
-Chi Pet
-StatCounter
-Swap Usage
-iCrono
-miniCPUUsage
Thanks for any help you can provide