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Imac Starting To Slow And Increase Hard Drive Paging
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<blockquote data-quote="Jaygyver" data-source="post: 1626845" data-attributes="member: 153421"><p>If you haven't found anything yet,</p><p></p><p> 4gigs of ram is really low for todays apps and OS's. Just adding another 4gigs should help out on slowing down the Page Outs. The extra ram also helps out when using multiple apps at the same time or having a lot of open windows in the browser for example. From what I understand the OS is resorting to using the HD as a "Ram disk" because it ran out of dedicated ram. The rainbow spinning curser is another sign of low ram.</p><p></p><p> There are a fair amount of things that happen when a HD starts to die. It seems like no two HD will give the same clues. Usually you will start to get corrupted files or it will take a long time to boot up or just die and not be useable at all. I believe HD's have a 3 to 5 year average life span. I've had some, from every brand, die in 6 months and yet my SCSI drive in my old Sawtooth G4 tower was still going strong after 10 yrs before I retired it. If your drive is 4 or 5 years old I would probably think about retiring it to an external HD housing and using it as a temporary drive for odds and ends.</p><p></p><p> I believe you can use an SSD but for the most bang for your buck the OS should really be the only one on the SSD drive and keep a standard HD for your applications and storage. From what I understand the SSD is not happy with a lot of writes/erases, it shortens the life span.</p><p> You may need a "caddie" in order to use the SSD in your HD spot as the SSD is much smaller then a standard HD. OWC (Macsales.com) and others have a lot of information and other goodies that you can use.</p><p></p><p> If you upgraded 10.10 over 10.9 it may have left some old files that 10.10 may not like? It's usually suggested to fresh install (erase/install) the new OS instead of upgrading over the old one, then use your backups to install the files you need. It's not as big a problem as it used to be but it can make it buggy for some. Another thing that helps when reinstalling the OS is to use the "Combo" updater instead of updating it one by one.</p><p></p><p> Hope this helps,,,,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaygyver, post: 1626845, member: 153421"] If you haven't found anything yet, 4gigs of ram is really low for todays apps and OS's. Just adding another 4gigs should help out on slowing down the Page Outs. The extra ram also helps out when using multiple apps at the same time or having a lot of open windows in the browser for example. From what I understand the OS is resorting to using the HD as a "Ram disk" because it ran out of dedicated ram. The rainbow spinning curser is another sign of low ram. There are a fair amount of things that happen when a HD starts to die. It seems like no two HD will give the same clues. Usually you will start to get corrupted files or it will take a long time to boot up or just die and not be useable at all. I believe HD's have a 3 to 5 year average life span. I've had some, from every brand, die in 6 months and yet my SCSI drive in my old Sawtooth G4 tower was still going strong after 10 yrs before I retired it. If your drive is 4 or 5 years old I would probably think about retiring it to an external HD housing and using it as a temporary drive for odds and ends. I believe you can use an SSD but for the most bang for your buck the OS should really be the only one on the SSD drive and keep a standard HD for your applications and storage. From what I understand the SSD is not happy with a lot of writes/erases, it shortens the life span. You may need a "caddie" in order to use the SSD in your HD spot as the SSD is much smaller then a standard HD. OWC (Macsales.com) and others have a lot of information and other goodies that you can use. If you upgraded 10.10 over 10.9 it may have left some old files that 10.10 may not like? It's usually suggested to fresh install (erase/install) the new OS instead of upgrading over the old one, then use your backups to install the files you need. It's not as big a problem as it used to be but it can make it buggy for some. Another thing that helps when reinstalling the OS is to use the "Combo" updater instead of updating it one by one. Hope this helps,,,, [/QUOTE]
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