What can I do because I have 2GB ram and it´s so slowly

Question

Hi friends:
I´m from México and this is my story;
When I start to use my eMac (a year ago) all the process are very quick, but now when I use any application to open files in the finder window of the program this process can be take 10 or 15 seconds, and It´s the same to save it.
At first I have free 160GB now I only have free 30Gb.
If you know the answerd, I been thankful
(sorry my English)

Answer 1

antoniosaucedo,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
30 GB free space is sufficient for OS X. You want to allow from 256 MB up to 1 GB hard drive space for swap files; allow 4.7+ GB for the temporary disk image if you have a DVD-RW (dropping to a bit under 1 GB if you havd CD-RW only); add a couple hundred MB hear and there for other scratch files, and figure on keeping at least 3 GB (CD-RW only) to 10 GB (DVD-RW) free. Inflate those numbers if you use Photoshop or Final Cut Express or other application known to make heavy use of hard disk scratch files, and your 30 GB is still OK. Ypu may want to start planning on getting an external Firewire hard drive soon and moving some files to that.
If you normally shut down an OS X Mac overnight or leave it in system sleep, the cron maintenance tasks cannot run in their nominal 3 am timeframe. (Display-only sleep allows the maintenance tasks to run). Tiger 10.4.2 and later will force the maintenance tasks to run after sufficient time has elapsed. Otherwise, you can leave the Mac in display-only sleep a weekend or two a month; you can manually Force Background Maintenance; or you can use a third-party utility such as OnyX to run the maintenance. Note that any system utility you use must be compatible with the OS version (e.g., use the Tiger version of OnyX with 10.4.x). Post back and let us know if running the maintenance scripts and clearing logs and caches makes your Mac feel responsive again.
2 GB RAM implies you have a 1.25 GB eMac or better. Note that 1 GB RAM cards are officially unsupported by the eMac; Apple only test and verified it up to 512 MB per slot. What are the specs on the 1 GB RAM cards you have? It's possible if unlikely that the 1 GB RAM chip's timing is mismatched and causing the computer to run slow.
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