[X4U] Low on Memory - I don't believe it

Randy B.Singer randy at macattorney.com
Sat Mar 5 18:40:26 PST 2005


Andrew Swanson said:

>I'd like to see if other people agree with my conclusion here.
>These are the symptoms:
>1) A couple of times lately, I've gotten the "Low on Memory" dialog. 
>The one that ask you to choose running applications to force quit and 
>free up virtual memory. The thing is, at the same time that this is 
>happening, the boot drive claims to have over 8GB free.


How big is your hard drive?  Is it close to 80% full, or has it ever been 
close to 80% full?

See:

http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html 
Item #5 and Note #2



Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html 



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