So something on my activity monitor is slowing down my mac while playing WoW, when it on average uses 1.62gb of my 8gb of ram. everything except for kernel/flashplayer is below 20mb, can anyone help me find the problem please. thanks in advance
Macbook pro OSX activity monitor help
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This doesn't sound right. Looking at my Activity Monitor...there are at least 15 things above 20meg...and I only have Safari & Mail open.
Can you tell us what this "something" is?
If this "thing" only happens when you play WoW...then it's probably something related to WoW. And it's possible that WoW itself is slowing down your Mac (maybe your Mac simply cannot handle WoW...or you have your WoW graphics settings too high).
As you can see...I'm doing a lot of guessing. Since your post is rather thin on information.
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This doesn't sound right. Looking at my Activity Monitor...there are at least 15 things above 20meg...and I only have Safari & Mail open.
Can you tell us what this "something" is?
If this "thing" only happens when you play WoW...then it's probably something related to WoW. And it's possible that WoW itself is slowing down your Mac (maybe your Mac simply cannot handle WoW...or you have your WoW graphics settings too high).
As you can see...I'm doing a lot of guessing. Since your post is rather thin on information.
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I closed WOW and safari and I ended up sitting at 5GB of RAM used. I can post imgur linked screenies of all the processes if that'd help as I do not know how to just upload them onto here.
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Three things:
1. Reboot/restart the computer & don't launch any apps. How many gigs used now?
2. Do you have anything (apps) that auto-load?
3. What OS version are you running?
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Thanks for the info.
Remember...OS 10.9 manages memory/ram differently than previous OS version's. So just because it looks like a lot of ram is being used in Activity Monitor (compared to what you may have seen in older OS versions)...this may not be an issue.And as I mentioned above...regarding the slowness with WoW. This may simply be that your computer doesn't have the specs to run WoW fast...or run it at a high or maxed out graphics detail settings.
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Thanks for the info.
And as I mentioned above...regarding the slowness with WoW. This may simply be that your computer doesn't have the specs to run WoW fast...or run it at a high or maxed out graphics detail settings.
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still even on a hardware reset(turning off/on), wouldn't 2.5gb be a lot running with nothing open?
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Has anything changed on your computer recently (I didn't see anything mentioned in your posts)?
If not...maybe this is the way your computer has operated all along (you're just now noticing it)...and thinking this is an issue...when it's really the way your computer has been normally operating.
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In 10.9, 2.5 gigs of memory being used in one fashion or another (mostly inactive, which doesn't really count), with no apps running is pretty typical. You're not going to really get great performance out of a 10.9 (or 10.10) Mac without at least eight gigs of RAM, an SSD drive, or both.
I am running 8gb of RAM. And also I don't recall what an SSD is sorry
Has anything changed on your computer recently (I didn't see anything mentioned in your posts)?
If not...maybe this is the way your computer has operated all along (you're just now noticing it)...and thinking this is an issue...when it's really the way your computer has been normally operating.
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Uhm im not sure to be honest, theres a lot of duplicates of processes on my activity monitor usually. Like at one point I saw 4 XPCD processes running at the same time. I do not know if linking imgurs of my processes list is allowed here but if it is, can you take a look at them and see if they're all normal for the sake of there being something(like a virus, ect). greatly appreciated
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If you feel something unusual is going on…post some pics of your Activity Monitor processes.
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imgur: the simple image sharer
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Those are from last night from when I first made the thread and closed out WoW/safari
alright thank you for the review of them. and for the sake of not starting another thread, what would cause plug-in failures? I've tried uninstalling adobe and reinstalling it and it still ends up doing it eventually.
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Why would you have Flash running while playing WOW? (I don't play so forgive me if this a dumb question.)
Sorry I didn't state it, its not while I'm running WoW, but rather while I'm watching twitch.
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