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Unknown use of ram slowing down my mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="1080Griz" data-source="post: 1625475" data-attributes="member: 339055"><p>About 2 years ago I bought a 2011 IMac with 4GB of ram and 500g hardrive. It has been working perfectly until about 2-3 months ago. Before, I could play World of Warcraft on with the settings on good and pull 60fps in a 25 man raid group. I could load up chrome in seconds and open up pages fast as well. Now, I pull 1-3 fps in raids (at the start at least), takes 30 seconds to open up chrome, even longer to open up a website or new tab on it, and pages takes minutes to open up. As I said earlier, this has been going on for months. As a side note, in the past I would run into issues of a full hardrive, and my computer would slow down a tad bit, but now I have 369 GB out of 500 GB of unused space and it is infinitely slower.</p><p></p><p>I have tried many things to speed up my computer but none seem to work. Today I saw some article about what could slow down your mac and it showed how to check your ram, and explained how virtual memory slowed your computer down. So I looked at my ram and was baffled </p><p>It says I am using 4 out of 4 GB of physical memory along with another 6.47 of Virtual memory. If you look closely, all of the applications on the page don't even add up to 2 GB of memory (there are more not shown but they are less than 2 MB each).</p><p></p><p>My question is, where is my ram going, and is this what is causing my mac to slow down? Thank you for your help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1080Griz, post: 1625475, member: 339055"] About 2 years ago I bought a 2011 IMac with 4GB of ram and 500g hardrive. It has been working perfectly until about 2-3 months ago. Before, I could play World of Warcraft on with the settings on good and pull 60fps in a 25 man raid group. I could load up chrome in seconds and open up pages fast as well. Now, I pull 1-3 fps in raids (at the start at least), takes 30 seconds to open up chrome, even longer to open up a website or new tab on it, and pages takes minutes to open up. As I said earlier, this has been going on for months. As a side note, in the past I would run into issues of a full hardrive, and my computer would slow down a tad bit, but now I have 369 GB out of 500 GB of unused space and it is infinitely slower. I have tried many things to speed up my computer but none seem to work. Today I saw some article about what could slow down your mac and it showed how to check your ram, and explained how virtual memory slowed your computer down. So I looked at my ram and was baffled It says I am using 4 out of 4 GB of physical memory along with another 6.47 of Virtual memory. If you look closely, all of the applications on the page don't even add up to 2 GB of memory (there are more not shown but they are less than 2 MB each). My question is, where is my ram going, and is this what is causing my mac to slow down? Thank you for your help. [/QUOTE]
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