Repair RAM permissions on a mac ? (how to free up ram ?)
Hi, so I have an early 2011 MBP with 4 GB of RAM but without really doing a lot I’m already using up 2,34 GB.
I think it’s really starting to affect the performance.
How can I make my machine faster again ?
Thanks
add more ram?
Reboot?
Pretty sure I can solve this or at least make it better without eating away at my vinyl budget. I just don’t know how.
Thought so too but I didn’t really do much.
Well tbh we’re gonna need more information to really help… for example, what do you have running when it’s utilizing 2GB of RAM?
I should point out by the way, that that’s not actually a BAD thing. RAM is supposed to be used by running applications.
Chrome and itunes, seems a bit excessive to take up 2 GB and it barely drops when I quit applications.
It’s just a problem because the laptop feels slow in general. And it 'd be nice to give it a speed boost without spending money.
Some guy on the forum said he repaired his RAM permissions and it made it a big difference, but that was a while back.
There’s no such thing as “RAM permissions”, you must be thinking of Disk Permissions, but that has nothing to do with RAM.
I know what disk permissions is. And RAM permissions are the exact words he used.
So the only way to speed my computer up is to get more RAM or an SSD ?
Computers will make use of as much RAM as possible in order to speed up general operation, especially if you have a standard HDD. Unless you’re actually getting close to running out of RAM, there’s nothing to worry about.
The slow performance is probably due to all the things you’ve installed onto the machine.
Flash Player EATS up ram and will not release it, so if you’ve been watching youtube videos you will be pretty screwed.
You can free up unused ram by going into Applications > Utiities > Terminal
Open Terminal and type “purge” (without quotes) and press enter.
Dont do this during a gig 
as everything freezes for about 30 seconds.
oh shit, youtube pretty much replaced TV for me.
What exactly does the “purge” command do ? It’s no delete System 32 joke is it !
Closing your browser (or the specific tabs) should immediately free up the memory taken up by flash applications.
buy more RAM. its cheap now to get 8gigs of RAM. Around $30. Thats not much of a budget eater if you ask me. But really you wont even notice the difference. Don’t get youself worked up about what the Utility is saying. IMO theres only 2 major things to speed up your MBP/Mac or any computer.
The SSD option will really show you what a performance upgrade feels like. The RAM upgrade, not so much. I’m running a late 09 MBP and just upgraded to an SSD. My computer feels ‘new-er’ and faster but really the processor is what is doing the work and that isn’t replaceable .
Cleans up Active/Inactive RAM. It’s safe as typing format c:
Easiest Solution TBH 
or you can kill the flash player in activity monitor if you dont want to reload all your tabs.
BTW the Purge Command does NOT work for flash anymore for whatever reason 
, god it really is a badly programmed piece of shite!
25 tabs open ONE instance of a youtube player to watch a few vides and flash was taking up 1.7 gigs of ram - ugh!
Where can you get 8GB of ram for $30?? Hook it up dawwg!
Those deals are around all the time. Just search slickdeals.
buy more ram, trust me. my imac had 4gb ram and it was slow. i bought 4gb extra and now everything is fast 
and it only cost 20€
You can use FreeMemory , but as long as I know the System frees Ram when needed.
Yeah maybe I really need an SSD or more RAM is was doing some stuff in ableton yesterday and my computer couldn’t handle it anymore. So basically you can’t do a song the way you want.