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by: Rita Montague September 13, 2009 4:48 PM PDT

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RAM question

by Rita Montague - 9/13/09 4:48 PM

Hi:

I have 512 mb of RAM on my ibook G4. Lately something is eating it up. I looked on the Activity Monitor and couldn't see anything different. Now when I open more than one page on a website, the RAM goes down to about 29 mb. and then the site freezes with the little rainbow pinwheel spinning. I can't get it to stop with the Apple/period technique.

Also, I have over 3 gigs of virtual memory but it's looks like it's not being tapped into so that I don't run out of RAM.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Rita


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by Rita Montague - 9/13/09 5:46 PM

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I'm back. OK, I don't know if this really does have anything to do with my RAM issue but since I left the above message, I have had to Force Quit Safari at least twice. I'm having to Force Quit very often now. Does anyone know why I would have to be doing this all of a sudden? It's happening on sites I frequent and have never had problems with before. I would appreciate any input. I've emptied my cache and cookies. I already trashed the stuff in my Safari folder minus the booklist plist. Any other ideas? I've run Disk Utility and Tool Tech Delux and a virus scanner (ClamXav). I don't know what to do next.

Thanks in advance.

Rita


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Hi, Rita

by jchuzi - 9/13/09 5:56 PM

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Nice to see you again. I can't help with your problem but I can suggest that you post it at http://www.finetunedmac.com/forums/ That's the reincarnation of the former MacFixit Forums. All the regulars are there and I think that the collective expertise may be able to solve your problem.


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by Rita Montague - 9/13/09 6:00 PM

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I didn't know this existed. Yippee! I'm on my way there.


Rita happy


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