The problem I'm about to describe had happened to me about a year ago, but I can't remember what I did to fix it. I may have been a command-line fix.
My machine is the aluminum MacBook (non-Pro), 2.0. Yesterday I upgraded my HDD to a 500GB. Through Carbon Copy Cloner, I cloned my old hard drive. Once complete, I immediately updated Time Machine and made sure that all worked. All was good. Then, I did another restart. After opening Photoshop and a few other memory hogs, I noticed that the memory that was being used was WIRED. Usually the OS uses the wired memory and only takes up about 400MB. Applications should use mostly ACTIVE memory, since the active can be moved around and written to the HDD if necessary. So... before my upgrade, (with numerous applications open and running), wired memory was about 15% of my memory monitor. Active memory would be about 60% of my memory. Now, it is backwards.
Like I said, I ran into this about a year ago. I can't remember if it was when I had previously done a different HDD upgrade or it was 10.6 install or what it was. But I remember that I did fix it and I think it MAY have been through a command line fix. I'm kind of stuck here, because my computer crawls once I have a few applications running and it is my work computer.
My machine is the aluminum MacBook (non-Pro), 2.0. Yesterday I upgraded my HDD to a 500GB. Through Carbon Copy Cloner, I cloned my old hard drive. Once complete, I immediately updated Time Machine and made sure that all worked. All was good. Then, I did another restart. After opening Photoshop and a few other memory hogs, I noticed that the memory that was being used was WIRED. Usually the OS uses the wired memory and only takes up about 400MB. Applications should use mostly ACTIVE memory, since the active can be moved around and written to the HDD if necessary. So... before my upgrade, (with numerous applications open and running), wired memory was about 15% of my memory monitor. Active memory would be about 60% of my memory. Now, it is backwards.
Like I said, I ran into this about a year ago. I can't remember if it was when I had previously done a different HDD upgrade or it was 10.6 install or what it was. But I remember that I did fix it and I think it MAY have been through a command line fix. I'm kind of stuck here, because my computer crawls once I have a few applications running and it is my work computer.