My MacBook is constantly freezing. At seemingly random times the spinning rainbow will start, and sometimes last for a few minutes. For the past couple of days, the computer is stalling all the time, almost more than it is running. I have plenty of room on the HDD (over 100 gigs) and there's no problems with outdated software, cluttered desktop, temperature/overheating.
MacBook (late 2009)
OS X 10.6.8
Processor: 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
When I look at Activity Monitor, usually only about 10-25% CPU is being used. But the Free System Memory usually starts around 900 MB and falls down to as low as a few hundred. Every time I've restarted my computer in the last couple of weeks I have built up some Page Outs. I don't think I've seen them exceed around 900 KB. Also, under System Memory, under the pie chart it says 1.75 GB, and for 'Used' it says 1.68 GB. Does that mean I need more memory? And that this isn't a hard drive problem? Is there something that's using up all of my memory? Or would I benefit from buying some more?
MacBook (late 2009)
OS X 10.6.8
Processor: 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
When I look at Activity Monitor, usually only about 10-25% CPU is being used. But the Free System Memory usually starts around 900 MB and falls down to as low as a few hundred. Every time I've restarted my computer in the last couple of weeks I have built up some Page Outs. I don't think I've seen them exceed around 900 KB. Also, under System Memory, under the pie chart it says 1.75 GB, and for 'Used' it says 1.68 GB. Does that mean I need more memory? And that this isn't a hard drive problem? Is there something that's using up all of my memory? Or would I benefit from buying some more?