I have a mid-2010 15” Macbook Pro that is running very slow. I always get the spinning beachball when I open applications.
Here is what I’ve got:
500GB hard drive 255GB free
2.66 GHz i7 processor
4GB 1067 GHz RAM
OS X Mavericks
Here’s what I’ve done:
Rebooted...lots.
Run the disk utility – verified disk permissions, repaired disk permissions, verify disk, repair disk. Results said the volume recovery HD appears to be Ok and the partition map appears to be ok.
When I open the activity monitor for CPU I get numbers in the 85-95% range for idle. What I’m concerned about is the memory numbers – memory used is in the 3.75GB - 3.98GB range. Physical memory says 4.00GB. Among other things there is a “kernel task” with 379.5MB whatever that means.
Does this mean the computer is running slow because the RAM is ‘used up’?
How do I fix this?
Thank you!
Here is what I’ve got:
500GB hard drive 255GB free
2.66 GHz i7 processor
4GB 1067 GHz RAM
OS X Mavericks
Here’s what I’ve done:
Rebooted...lots.
Run the disk utility – verified disk permissions, repaired disk permissions, verify disk, repair disk. Results said the volume recovery HD appears to be Ok and the partition map appears to be ok.
When I open the activity monitor for CPU I get numbers in the 85-95% range for idle. What I’m concerned about is the memory numbers – memory used is in the 3.75GB - 3.98GB range. Physical memory says 4.00GB. Among other things there is a “kernel task” with 379.5MB whatever that means.
Does this mean the computer is running slow because the RAM is ‘used up’?
How do I fix this?
Thank you!