G4 10.4.11 _Slows down, running out of RAM?

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WalterAldro

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I am new to Mac. Are there utilities that i can engage that make the system defragment or clean t self up?

I seem to be runnning out of ram when running even one program...

WA
 
How much ram do you have installed?
How much FREE HD space do you have?
Also if you run "Activity Monitor" located in your "Applications-Utilities" folder
you can monitor and locate bottlenecks.
then you can download and run an App such as "Yasu" (free trial) which will help clear things out
 
Here's what the "About this MAc" says:

Dual 1.42 Ghz PowerPC G4
2 MB L3 Cache per processor
Memory 1 GB DDR SDRAM

I guess that's part of the problem as I am trying to do photoshop files og around 1 GB. However, everything is very slow even if Photoshop s not open..

wd
 
I assume yours is the Power Mac G4 which has a dual 1.42 GHz processor and the cache you describe. According to MacTracker you can double your RAM to 2 GB which may help things rather cheaply. I have used This vendor because they guarantee their memory for life, but it seems their page has been borked now no longer borked. They state you can upgrade to 2 GB using four 512MB chips which cost between $12-14 each. Rather cheap way to double your memory which will certainly help.

You may consider using This to confirm your memory.

--J.D.
 
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You also need to have enough empty space on your hard drive. Mac OS X - without Photoshop - likes to have 15 % or more of the hard drive size free at all times. So a 100 GB HD = 15+ GB free for maintenance.
If you run huge files in Photoshop or video editing programs etc, those will create huge cache files. If you have that 100 GB HD and it has that 15 GB free, if you have big photos open PS could suck 10 GB for the caches, leaving very little space for the other things the system needs, causing slowness.

What is your hard drive size, and how much of that is empty? If you need more space, upgrade the hard drive or get an external HD for files you don't need access to all the time.
 
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