Activity Monitor User Guide
The Memory pane displays how much memory your Mac is using, how often it is swapping memory between RAM and your startup disk, and the amount of memory provided for an app and how much of it is compressed memory.
- Memory Optimizer and Booster is a wonderful magical application to allow you to monitor your Mac’s free memory timely. This software can meet the need of keeping the user informed of the current status of memory usage in the menu bar.
- Jul 28, 2019 Free memory (was Boost & Memory) is an app to monitor memory and disk space usage and clean up your memory. It increases your Mac’s performance by cleaning cached memory, making more memory available for new apps. The application monitors RAM usage on your computer and frees up unused memory with one click.
When you have free or unused memory, your computer performance does not necessarily improve. macOS obtains the best performance by efficiently using and managing all of your computer’s memory.
In the Activity Monitor app on your Mac, click Memory (or use the Touch Bar).
The Memory Pressure graph lets you know if your computer is using memory efficiently.
Green memory pressure: Your computer is using all of its RAM efficiently.
Yellow memory pressure: Your computer might eventually need more RAM.
Red memory pressure: Your computer needs more RAM.
If memory pressure is yellow, red, or has spikes, check to see if an app is using up memory and causing the memory pressure to increase. If you no longer need to have the app running, you should quit the app.
Your computer’s memory pressure is accurately measured by examining the amount of free memory available, the swap rate, and the amount of wired and file cached memory to determine if your computer is using RAM efficiently.
To learn how to add more RAM to your Mac, do one of the following, depending on your Mac model:
Restart Your Mac. Restarting your Mac is the simplest way to free up RAM. When your Mac restarts, it'll empty the RAM and any disk caches, which should make your Mac run smoother once the system loads up. If your Mac is unresponsive, press and hold the Power button to force it to shut down instead.
Choose Apple menu > About This Mac, click Memory, then click Memory Upgrade Instructions.
Choose Apple menu > About This Mac, click Support, then click Hardware Support.
Note: This option is only available on Mac computers with upgradable RAM.
In the Activity Monitor app on your Mac, click Memory (or use the Touch Bar) to see the following in the bottom of the window. Memory Pressure: Graphically represents how efficiently your memory is serving your processing needs. Memory pressure is determined by the amount of free memory, swap rate, wired memory, and file cached memory. Before installing more RAM, or resorting to downloading an app, there are a number of things you can do that might free up your RAM and fix your Mac’s memory problems. Memory Clean is an app for cleaning up your Mac OS X device memory at intervals. Memory Clean is available from the App Store or several download sites, and installs easily. Memory Clean is a free. FreeMemory for Mac is a utility to free up unneeded memory in your Mac OS X device. It is available for free from the App Store and download sites. FreeMemory for Mac is a utility to free up unneeded memory in your Mac OS X device. It is available for free from the App Store and download sites.
You must quit the application before you can remove it.
Uninstalling Software: The Basics
Most OS X applications are completely self-contained 'packages' that can be uninstalled by simply dragging the application to the Trash. Applications may create preference files that are stored in the /Home/Library/Preferences/ folder. Although they do nothing once you delete the associated application, they do take up some disk space. If you want you can look for them in the above location and delete them, too.
Some applications may install an uninstaller program that can be used to remove the application. In some cases the uninstaller may be part of the application's installer, and is invoked by clicking on a Customize button that will appear during the install process.
Some applications may install components in the /Home/Library/Applications Support/ folder. You can also check there to see if the application has created a folder. You can also delete the folder that's in the Applications Support folder. Again, they don't do anything but take up disk space once the application is trashed.
Some applications may install a startupitem or a Log In item. Startupitems are usually installed in the /Library/StartupItems/ folder and less often in the /Home/Library/StartupItems/ folder. Log In Items are set in the Accounts preferences. Open System Preferences, click on the Accounts icon, then click on the LogIn Items tab. Locate the item in the list for the application you want to remove and click on the '-' button to delete it from the list.
Some software use startup daemons or agents that are a new feature of the OS. Look for them in /Library/LaunchAgents/ and /Library/LaunchDaemons/ or in /Home/Library/LaunchAgents/.
If an application installs any other files the best way to track them down is to do a Finder search using the application name or the developer name as the search term. Unfortunately Spotlight will not look in certain folders by default. You can modify Spotlight's behavior or use a third-party search utility, EasyFind, instead.
Some applications install a receipt in the /Library/Receipts/ folder. Usually with the same name as the program or the developer. The item generally has a '.pkg' extension. Be sure you also delete this item as some programs use it to determine if it's already installed.
There are many utilities that can uninstall applications. Here is a selection:
1. AppZapper 2.0.1
2. AppDelete 3.2.6
3. Automaton 1.50
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4. Hazel
Free Ram App Mac 10
5. AppCleaner 2.1.0
6. CleanApp
7. iTrash 1.8.2
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8. Amnesia
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9.Uninstaller 1.15.1
10.Spring Cleaning 11.0.1
Free Ram App Mac Desktop
Free Mac Ram Test
Download Mac Apps
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