[X4U] Fix a slow Mac with Activity Monitor

[Zane H. Healy]

At 5:05 PM +0200 6/11/12, Paul Moortgat wrote:
><http://www.macworld.com/article/1167116/fix_a_slow_mac_with_activity_monitor.html#lsrc.nl_mwweek_h_cbstories>

I always have Activity Monitor running, and the dock icon is set to 
show "Memory Usage".  I'm running 10.6.8, and with Bridge CS6, 
Photoshop Extended CS5, Lightroom 3, Capture One 6, and a few small 
apps memory on my 8-core late-2010 Mac Pro is very tight, in spite of 
the fact I have 24Gb of RAM.  Photoshop CS6 has a bad habit of 
growing its memory footprint until it chokes the system to death (I'm 
told Lightroom 4 has the same problem, but haven't felt the need to 
upgrade to it).

The result is that I can't live without Activity Monitor, and depend 
on it to give me the information I need to keep my system functioning.

Zane




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