Wednesday, January 26, 2022

CLEANING UP MY RAM

I am almost not even able to use my computer. It am no longer able to open anything without delay, and when I use the "sweeping" app EaseUS CleanGenius, I have no memory freed, even though I have 3 GB in inactive memory, and the free memory is 110 MB of 8 GB!

So I am going to restart my computer (I tend to leave it on because the startup takes too long), and follow this advice.

These are the steps will try and update:

1. Restart your computer. Done

2. Update software. Done

3. Change browser. Still using safari.(chrome/firefox are better for RAM)

4. Clear my cache. This helped.

Finder-- Go tab--Go to folder dropdown--~/Library/Caches--Go to folder--Edit tab--Select All--File tab--Move to trash

5. Disable extensions

Recommended to follow:

Spotlight (command+space)

Finder -- Preferences -- right click -- clear (chose open folders in tabs --instead of new window)

Activity -- memory - i (information) -- quit (i didn't highlight and didn't recognize ANYTHING!)
              -- CPU 

Lastly, recommended to advanced user (so for me, to be used with caution as a last resort!)
Open TERMINAL
Write "sudo purge"
This should clear inactive

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