Ram memory pictures free#
Sometimes a quick system restart is the easiest way to free up RAM. To keep this work space on your system free and usable, quit open applications and close files and documents (especially large ones) that you do not need to use. Hard-drive space usage can be found by getting information on the hard drive, or from the Disk Usage section of the Activity Monitor utility. If you have the space for them then they won't cause a problem, but if you have too many apps open or if your work space is relatively small then you might crowd the rest of your work environment. This would be similar to having multiple system add-ons and tools all running in the background on your system. Just imagine the desk above containing lamps, pen holders, some pictures, and other "widgets" each may use up a small amount of space but together they use up lots of space. RAM instead is a temporary storage location like your desk's work surface, which if it's cluttered with tools, papers, and other items (in other words, open applications or system add-ons) will be harder to organize and use. While RAM may be a factor in slowdowns, RAM is not your storage medium, so you cannot manually delete anything to free it up. The system's RAM and hard-drive space can be visualized as a desk's work space and storage cabinets, respectively. In order to tackle slowdowns that happen because of low system resources, it is good to first understand in principle the ways that RAM (memory) and hard-drive space (storage) will affect performance, and the best way I've found to view this is through the analogy of a work desk. I regularly receive comments and questions from people asking me about RAM and hard-drive optimizations and including phrases similar to, "I know that the problem has to do with RAM (I have 2GB), but what types of files can I delete to free this up?"
People may suggest "freeing up memory," increasing RAM, or doing the same for hard-drive space however, the similarity and overlapping use of these words can confuse people, especially given that both RAM and hard-drive contents are sized in megabytes and gigabytes. When troubleshooting Macs and other systems, the word "memory" may be thrown around rather carelessly when addressing problems such as slowdowns.
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