Activity Monitor: System Memory. Questions
Hi apple community. I have a questions about this picture above.
This is my MBP retina performs in system memory.
What is the wired thing (mark in color red)?
Does this lower my mac's performace?
if it do so, how to prevent things to being wired?
and also the inactive (mark in color blue)
what does it do? and does it effect my mac?
if it looks bad, can u make suggestions for me on what to do to improve my mac performance like brand new?
i have my mac for 7 months now.
ur help will be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Apple support articles which seem to answer your general questions.
Memory - Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
Memory - Check whether more RAM will improve performance
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Activity Monitor inaccurate memory
I just added 2x1GB Crucial sticks to my G5 dual 2.5 for a total of 5GB in 10.3.9. But activity monitor now shows incorrect values for free memory. The pie chart shows 1GB of total RAM instead of 5GB. The top command in terminal agrees with Activity Monitor for used RAM, VM, and pageins/outs but does show the correct free RAM as 4.5GB. So this would seem to be a cosmetic issue, but it does make acitivity monitor a lot less useful. Accurate values were reported with 3GB RAM installed before the memory upgrade. Anyone know a fix for this behavior?
Similar issues have been fixed by running the Repair Permissions feature of the Disk Utility. This may also be the result of the address space some applications use to store the amount of RAM installed not being large enough to handle a number over 4GB properly. In either case, the full amount of RAM will be available to the system.
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Activity monitor Page Out question
Is there a way to get Page Outs to report the number of page outs rather than bytes ?
And when did this change, as it used to report in # of pages.... I think in 10.5Sorry, but that cannot be changed. If you want a better report of that information then open the Terminal and enter: top then press RETURN. Top's information is more complete than what is reported in Activity Monitor. Also see:
About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
Understanding top output in the Terminal
The amount of available RAM for applications is the sum of Free RAM and Inactive RAM. This will change as applications are opened and closed or change from active to inactive status. The Swap figure represents an estimate of the total amount of swap space required for VM if used, but does not necessarily indicate the actual size of the existing swap file. If you are really in need of more RAM that would be indicated by how frequently the system uses VM. If you open the Terminal and run the top command at the prompt you will find information reported on Pageins () and Pageouts (). Pageouts () is the important figure. If the value in the parentheses is 0 (zero) then OS X is not making instantaneous use of VM which means you have adequate physical RAM for the system with the applications you have loaded. If the figure in parentheses is running positive and your hard drive is constantly being used (thrashing) then you need more physical RAM. -
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Activity monitor inconsistancy - what is real virtual memory size???
When I look at my activity montior system memory screen I see real and virtual memory in MB (with the largest at about 500MB). As in my previous post I see a VM size of >240GB. When I go to the File menu and hit Save... and then look at the resulting processes.txt file I see that the virtual memory is now listed in GB. The real memory is consistent with what I see on the activity monitor window. See below. What's up? Which virtual memory is real and which is "virtual"?
Active Memory: 1.47 GB
Free Memory: 846.1 MB
Wired Memory: 770.8 MB
Used Memory: 3.17 GB
Inactive Memory: 972.1 MB
Total VM: 231.35 GB
Number of processes: 100
PID Process Name User CPU Real Mem Virtual Mem
0 kernel_task root 4.9 384.3 MB 4.45 GB
1 launchd root 0.0 2.2 MB 2.34 GB
11 UserEventAgent root 0.0 4.4 MB 2.35 GB
12 kextd root 0.0 3.4 MB 2.33 GB
14 notifyd root 0.0 1.5 MB 2.34 GB
15 securityd root 0.0 8.9 MB 2.36 GB
16 powerd root 0.0 1.8 MB 2.35 GB
17 configd root 0.0 4.5 MB 2.34 GB
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19 diskarbitrationd root 0.0 1.5 MB 2.33 GB
20 distnoted root 0.0 2.1 MB 2.35 GB
21 cfprefsd root 0.0 1.8 MB 2.33 GB
22 opendirectoryd root 0.0 9.8 MB 2.36 GB
25 warmd nobody 0.0 5.5 MB 2.34 GB
26 usbmuxd _usbmuxd 0.0 2.3 MB 2.34 GB
29 stackshot root 0.0 1.2 MB 2.33 GB
30 SleepServicesD root 0.0 1.5 MB 2.33 GB
32 revisiond root 0.0 2.6 MB 2.35 GB
37 mds root 0.0 124.2 MB 3.04 GB
38 mDNSResponder _mdnsrespo 0.0 3.8 MB 2.34 GB
41 loginwindow prdwyer 0.0 27.8 MB 2.47 GB
42 locationd _locationd 0.0 7.3 MB 2.36 GBIgnore that. The method it's calculated works as following:
1. You have the Finder and Safari open.
2. Both programs and no other ones use the content of a single block of data. This block takes up 2MB of RAM or swapfile space.
3. The block is counted as 4MB in the VM size entry because it's being used twice.
Expanding the scenario over many processes and blocks adds up to a VM size figure which is far larger than the actual amount in use or the combined total of RAM and swapfile space.
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Activity Monitor - Java Virtual Memory Use is 16,333.00 TB. How is this possible?
Activity Monitor: Virtual Memory column -
Java Real Memory @ 330 MB
Java Virtual Memory was 16,333 TB.
How could this be?
Running:
Safari
Mail
Pages
Activity Monitor open
Safari was incredibly slow today, as it has been a lot lately, but inconsistently. The other computers in the house had normal speed. I'm not a tech person. I attached a copy of the activity monitor - how it looks right now. I appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. Thank you.
bottom halfAs Kappy says, the virtual memory information is mostly meaningless except to developers, and most of them do not really care.
In this case the Java VM usage is most likely a math error on the part of either the operating system, or Activity Monitor (when a 64-bit number goes negative, but is then displayed as an unsigned value, it can look like what you are seeing; ignore it).
What you ARE interested in is "Real Memory" usage, and who is using it. Look at those numbers in Activity Monitor.
If you want to see if pageout activity is affecting your performance, then start Applicaitons -> Utilities -> Terminal and run the command "sar -g 60 100" which will report pageout numbers once a minute for 100 minutes (adjust the numbers to suit your tastes). Mostly zero means no pages outs. Occassional spikes generally occur when starting an app or switching to an app which has been idle for awhile. Sustained pageouts starts to indicate a problem. High sustained pageouts means you could benefit from either having more RAM or running fewer concurrent applications. -
Could someone please explain what "Run Spindump" & "Run System Diagnostics" does in 'Activity Monitor' ?
Good question. You don't need to worry about running those. They will run automatically when needed by the system. The information they generate (some) is sent to apple automatically (unless that setting is disabled).
If you want to look at the output of these files, most can be found in the console (Utility/Console). Open the app and look at all the system messages your Mac generates....on the right hand side I would bet you already have a crash log or spindump that was collected without you even knowing it. -
Running Activity Monitor To Shut Unnecessary Functions Off?
I just ran Activity Monitor to see how the CPU on my MacBook was doing and saw all these "root" functions and this Quicklook thing that list almost 600MB of RAM/Virtual Memory usage. iVirus usage 171MB. Are there ways to disable apps and directory actions that are totally unnecessary to save RAM and CPU actions? Any links to Activity Monitor tutorials?
Also since the SL 10.6.1 update, the fan comes on more frequently and the casing underneath is getting warmer. I assume this has to be related to something related to what is going on in Activity Monitor. Any clues there?
I have 4GB RAM.
Thanks for any help and ideas on what could improve the MacBook performance.
SteveI would stay away from killing processes you know nothing about as that can lead to the OS failing to function. As for Activity Monitor and memory management see the following:
About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
Understanding top output in the Terminal
The amount of available RAM for applications is the sum of Free RAM and Inactive RAM. This will change as applications are opened and closed or change from active to inactive status. The Swap figure represents an estimate of the total amount of swap space required for VM if used, but does not necessarily indicate the actual size of the existing swap file. If you are really in need of more RAM that would be indicated by how frequently the system uses VM. If you open the Terminal and run the top command at the prompt you will find information reported on Pageins () and Pageouts (). Pageouts () is the important figure. If the value in the parentheses is 0 (zero) then OS X is not making instantaneous use of VM which means you have adequate physical RAM for the system with the applications you have loaded. If the figure in parentheses is running positive and your hard drive is constantly being used (thrashing) then you need more physical RAM.
About OS X system processes - MacFixIt;
OS X Process Management- Guide to Activity Monitor - MacFixIt. -
Activity Monitor command-line equivalent
Hi,
Is there a way to gather all the informations that we can find in the Activity Monitor (cpu, memory, open file-descriptors for each process) via the Terminal ??
In fact, I am looking for a procfs (/proc) equivalent...Hello ccharbo,
You could use the top command. Does procfs (/proc) not provide all the information you are looking for?
[Mac OS X Manual Page For top(1)|http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Ma nPages/man1/top.1.html]
B-rock -
Activity monitor says I have 1 -3% of System Memory free, yet CPU usage shows less than 10% total of all processes
I think you should review what you wrote. There is no question, hence, my reply. I can't tell by the AM listing what applications are using memory. You need to click on the Real Mem column once or twice to display in descending order.
Aside from what you see in AM, what exactly is your problem or perceived problem. You are very low on Free Mem at the moment the screen shot was taken. Those displays are not depicting your computer's instantaneous memory usage.
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Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory & determine how much RAM is used
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
Memory Usage Performance Guidelines- About the Virtual Memory System
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Adding RAM only makes it possible to run more programs concurrently. It doesn't speed up the computer nor make games run faster. What it can do is prevent the system from having to use disk-based VM when it runs out of RAM because you are trying to run too many applications concurrently or using applications that are extremely RAM dependent. It will improve the performance of applications that run mostly in RAM or when loading programs. -
PVC2300 - Video Monitoring System (3 urgent questions)
Hi there,
I'm pretty sure these questions have been asked before - but could not find answers to these.
Setup:
When running a Video Surveillance setup, with up to 16, PVC2300 cameras connected to the Video Monitoring System (LBAVMS16):
1. Does the PC running LBAVMS16 need to be "on" all the time for the video feed to be stored on a NSS device?
2. Is there any difference between the "old Linksys" monitoring software and "LBAVMS16"?
3. Can you run a mixed camera (WVC2300 and PVC2300) environment using "LBAVMS16"?
I have a partner testing the solution and I would guess they are not the only ones facing these same questions.
Many thanks in advance!
Rasmus Almqvist, Territory Market Manager
Phone: +358 40 774 6719
Email: [email protected]Hello,
First, you want to use SWVMS16. Its the newer Small Business Software Video Monitoring System that will work with WVC210, PVC2300, WVC2300, and PVC300 (new).
http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/solutions/small_business/products/security/small_business_video_surveillance_cameras/index.html
The 'latest' version you will find here is 1.0.0, but when we announce the PVC300 orderable, that should go to 1.0.1.
Please upgrade both the PVC2300 and WVC2300 to 'Camera' FW version 1.0.1 for it to work with SWVMS16.
This SW is free so just come back and check in the coming weeks for the update.
The older LBAVMS16 will not support the PVC300 and has the old Linksys SKIN and is actually a different SW completely. The newer one is the Cisco small business offering we will have going forward. The older SW would allow you to set up the motion detection and then it would run in the task bar, and it would record as motion occurred, even though it was not open.
The new SWVMS16 has a concept of a MAIN console (role based access) and after you define the 'Always' on or 'Motion Detection' configuration, you will then need to click on START/STOP in the Recordings GUI Drawer and select START RECORDING SCHEDULE and then all the cameras will have a Green LED indicator on the screen showing they are active and ready and will follow the configuration. You can minimize it at this point, but you cant close it. CLosing it will stop the schedule. The datasheet should show the PC requirements to run this application, and to be honest, if you have more than 4 cameras, this is not a part time task. Of course, it will depend on the Video quality you set up on each camera, but you will find monitoring 8 cameras will use your CPU and Memory (run the Windows Task manager to see). This is why for 16 cameras, we recommed a very powerful PC with alot of RAM.
I am running a Dual Intel Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz Machine with 1 GB or RAM and with 4 cameras at Highest quality it runs at 45-55% CPU utilization, just as an example. So the point is this PC should be pretty much dedicated to this function of monitoring, recording, playback.
Now keep something else in mind. The Cameras (all of ours) dont need the SWVMS16 to do motion detection to NSS, or EMAIL. The cameras themselves can FTP (client) motion detection (MPEG4 or MJPEG) direct to NSS (FTP server) or SMTP Mail. Its configured on the Camera. And with a PC Browser, you can monitor the Camera, or QuickTime, etc. The SWVMS just makes it easy to monitor them all in one place with all the convenience and functions you would use in a SMB. So technically SWVMS16 is not needed to operate motion detection to the NSS, but if you are running SWVMS, then yes, it needs to be on.
In fact, I run BOTH on my cameras. That is, I have them set to FTP to my NSS, and I also have them monitored by SWVMS. Our Cameras are dual stream, dual codec, and have no problem with this, and can be monitored from up to 10 HTTP servers as well (RTSP increases that), which is usually enough.
An interesting twist, which is also practiced and supported, is defining the NSS File Share as the SWVMS16 Video Storage location. Just another option to consider.
Hope this clarifies a little?
Steve DiStefano
SE US Field Channel -
Activity Monitor -- Memory. Details Needed.
Could anyone point out what exactly the "Free" and "Inactive" memory spaces are??
I'm running on a 2GB RAM MacBook Pro. I don't run too many mem intensive programs. But quite often the "Free" mem would drop to 100-150 MB. But at that point, the "Inactive" mem would be around 500-600 MB. So what exactly a I looking at? Am I facing a mem crunch?
I'm new to OSX. from my previous experience with Windows OSes, how much ever RAM you give it, the OS will take a huge chunk and then free up as necessary. Is it something like that that I'm looking at over here? Or am I supposed to go for a mem upgrade?
And I know the next question is might be out of place, but, after quite wome time of browsing on Firefox, it seems to take 500+ MB of RAM. Is that normal??
Thanks in advance for your replies & suggestions.About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
Understanding top output in the Terminal
The amount of available RAM for applications is the sum of Free RAM and Inactive RAM. This will change as applications are opened and closed or change from active to inactive status. The Swap figure represents an estimate of the total amount of swap space required for VM if used, but does not necessarily indicate the actual size of the existing swap file. If you are really in need of more RAM that would be indicated by how frequently the system uses VM. If you open the Terminal and run the top command at the prompt you will find information reported on Pageins () and Pageouts (). Pageouts () is the important figure. If the value in the parentheses is 0 (zero) then OS X is not making instantaneous use of VM which means you have adequate physical RAM for the system with the applications you have loaded. If the figure in parentheses is running positive and your hard drive is constantly being used (thrashing) then you need more physical RAM.
It's not abnormal for browsers to eventually use a huge amount of RAM. Use the latest version of your browser that's available. Emptying some of the browsers caches like the History cache will help somewhat, but the best way to recover the memory is to quit then relaunch the browser - or just don't worry about it and put more RAM in your computer. -
So I am really unsure where to start but I def need a little help getting to where I want to be or feel I should be. I understand that I am pretty much filled when it comes to the RAM on this machine but I need to figure out how to lower it. I back up my machine about once a week which is longer than I would prefer but due to the way Mavericks has been acting I cant deal with the long backup process.... WHY?!?? may be your response to that and I will fill you in. My external Hard Drive is a 1tb Lacie and its about 2 years old. In that time I have dropped, lost, threw and slept ontop of it. Causeing minor damage (each time) to the casing. So now becomes rather hot and I kinda dont want it to burn out. When I first updated to Mavericks the backups were fast and went along mb by mb...now though, the updates drag out for 3-5 hours and update kb by kb. Tried some of the "solutions" posted on here but none seem to work any more than me consistantly purging my system while the backup happens...kinda why I dont have time to do it everyday like I'd like.
ANYWAY can someone please fill me in on a way, program, application, anything that will help me lower my RAM? Because in the spirit of honesty I just dont have the extra funds to snag some new RAM or another HD. I am almost at the point of saying "F**K IT" and wiping everything off the computer so its as close to empty as can be and manually, one by one redownloading what I want/need. But I dont have the time to accomplish that either. PLEASE lend me your ear and help a brudda out with some information from that exceptional brain of yours.
Below is a copy of my machines "report" from EtreCHECK and I am including screen shots of what the (Mavericks) Activity Monitor currently looks like in ALL PROCESSES. PLUS it kinda seems that I have WAY TOOO MANY processes going on in the ACTIVITY MONITOR and have NO clue how to lower the amount. Will truly appreciate any help anyone can toss my way.
THANK YOU
TommyTheTuna
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro6,2
1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics - VRAM: 288 MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M - VRAM: 256 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
AirPlay: Version: 1.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
System Software:
OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 0:12:4
Disk Information:
TOSHIBA MK3255GSXF disk0 : (320.07 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 319.21 GB (194.65 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Information:
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Kernel Extensions:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[not loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
[not loaded] com.livescribe.PenCommService.plist
[not loaded] com.luthresearch.scservice.plist
[not loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
[not loaded] com.paceap.eden.licensed.plist
[not loaded] PACESupport.plist
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[not loaded] com.luthresearch.savvyconnectmenu.plist
[not loaded] com.wacom.pentablet.plist
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist
[not loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[not loaded] com.Livestation.plist
[not loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
Default Browser.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
o1dbrowserplugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
WacomNetscape.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Unity Web Player.plugin
Bad Fonts:
None
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: NO
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 319.21 GB Disk used: 124.57 GB
Destinations:
Tuna's MacBook Pro Hard Drive [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 999.86 GB
Total number of backups: 2
Oldest backup: 2013-11-07 13:34:08 +0000
Last backup: 2013-11-26 05:08:40 +0000
Size of backup disk: Excellent
Backup size 999.86 GB > (Disk size 319.21 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
2% WindowServer
1% EtreCheck
0% SystemUIServer
0% fontd
0% Finder
0% Microsoft Word
0% aosnotifyd
Top Processes by Memory:
156 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
111 MB Finder
106 MB Microsoft Word
94 MB Safari
82 MB Preview
74 MB WindowServer
61 MB CalendarAgent
57 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
57 MB com.apple.internetaccounts
53 MB SystemUIServer
Virtual Memory Statistics:
1.07 GB Free RAM
1.92 GB Active RAM
237 MB Inactive RAM
662 MB Wired RAM
223 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outsMavericks is designed to use as much RAM as possible. Free RAM is wasted RAM... it's RAM that's not working for you, not doing anything helpful. Seeing your RAM full is not an indication that there is a problem. Seeing your memory pressure graph spike would be.
As for the performance issues, see my Mac Performance Guide.
Note that you've got a lot of third-party software loaded:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[not loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
[not loaded] com.livescribe.PenCommService.plist
[not loaded] com.luthresearch.scservice.plist
[not loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
[not loaded] com.paceap.eden.licensed.plist
[not loaded] PACESupport.plist
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[not loaded] com.luthresearch.savvyconnectmenu.plist
[not loaded] com.wacom.pentablet.plist
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist
[not loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[not loaded] com.Livestation.plist
[not loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist
You should probably try to weed some of that out, if possible, or at least make sure it's all updated and compatible with Mavericks. -
I had closed out of all of my programs but heard the internal fans running so I checked the activity monitor. It shows syslog d as the top process using the CPU right now. I have no idea what that means.
I read a thread about the startup disk being full and how you can free up memory. I have an airport extreme so TimeCapsule is backing up everything. I do have a bunch of pictures on iPhoto on the laptop; could move those to another location but I'm a little gunshy. I know they are on the TimeCapsule but I would like to save them to a second place before deleting from laptop just to be sure. I went through several things yesterday and emptied trash, etc. I wasn't able to locate the hidden files that the thread about the startup disk being full was referencing --- they were talking about large emails that were causing processes to happen taking up the CPU.... I wasn't able to find out if that was the case for me.
Also I'm going to look into getting another 2MB of memory and installing it on the Macbook, so I can upgrade to the latest OS. Anyone have an idea if that is worth the $$$ over buying a new laptop? Or anyone have ideas as to where to buy memory, etc.
Any ideas - help!Go step by step and test.
1. Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
2. Empty Trash.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13806
3. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
Local backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878
4. Delete old iOS Devices Backup.
iTunes > Preferences > Devices
Highlight the old Backups , press “Delete Backup” and then “OK”.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
5. Re-index Macintosh HD.
This will take a while. Wait until it is finished.
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409 -
Compressed memory showing 0% in activity monitor
On one of my Mac Mini's (late 2012), upgraded to 16GB RAM, I keep getting out of memory messages when running apps and on checking the activity monitor it is showing 0% for all running apps under the compressed memory column. I'm running OS-X 10.10.3.
Any ideas on what's going on here? I've tried resetting the NVRAM....The system isn't compressing memory because is doesn't yet need to; 16GB is pretty generous. The 'Memory' column includes shared memory (system libraries) so there can be a lot of 'double counting' in the figures. You can control+click on the 'Memory' column headers to get other measures.
Try opening Safari and open a dozen tabs with different complicated pages in each one of them, e.g. some pages news.bbc.co.uk. I'm sure you'll be able to start compression eventually.
Meanwhile, your original issue is a bug, or corrupted file, associated with Solibri Model Viewer. You'll probably need to contact its developer for assistance as I doubt that enough users will be reading this forum for you to get an answer here.
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Converting CS6 to a CS5.5 document
Hi. I have just followed this advice http://forums.adobe.com/message/5771851 (point 5) on converting to make a CS 6 version useable on CS5.5 I & two others have found that 5.5 crashes after doing this. Anyone have any advice on this? Thanks