SAMEH209 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Hi all,I Installed Yosemite recently and I've been experiencing lag often when multi-tasking.My specs are: M.B:Gigabyte G41MT-S2PCPU: Intel Core2Duo E7500 2.93GHzRam: 4GB Kingstone DDR3VGA: AMD HD 5570 1GBIs it because of the RAM? will the lag be eliminated if I upgrade the RAM to 6 GB? (1x 2GB + 1x4GB)Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304575-constant-lagfreeze-on-yosemite/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Cconsider that the hardware is a bit old. But an upgrade of RAM would be a good idea And take a good read here: 6 Easy Tips to Speed Up OS X Yosemite on Your Mac 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304575-constant-lagfreeze-on-yosemite/#findComment-2112039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAMEH209 Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Cconsider that the hardware is a bit old. But an upgrade of RAM would be a good idea And take a good read here: 6 Easy Tips to Speed Up OS X Yosemite on Your Mac But I'm not really doing much.. Just Chrome and Itunes or a movie on VLC..simple things like that. The same things and more doesn't lag on Windows 8.1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304575-constant-lagfreeze-on-yosemite/#findComment-2112048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 You upgrade your OS X Yosemite? 10.10.2 ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304575-constant-lagfreeze-on-yosemite/#findComment-2112053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAMEH209 Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 You upgrade your OS X Yosemite? 10.10.2 ? No it's 10.10.1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304575-constant-lagfreeze-on-yosemite/#findComment-2112057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Try update. In some cases you gain more stability and velocity. After this, repair your disk permissions and rebuild the cache. Please don't forget to make a backup of your modified kexts and files, etc... 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304575-constant-lagfreeze-on-yosemite/#findComment-2112061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 hello nah .. if u have 64 gb ram .. ur mobo can't get it.. and ur cpu ... that is ur problem old hardware in a new OS .. design for new machines if is running u have luck.. good hack Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304575-constant-lagfreeze-on-yosemite/#findComment-2112076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAMEH209 Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 hello nah .. if u have 64 gb ram .. ur mobo can't get it.. and ur cpu ... that is ur problem old hardware in a new OS .. design for new machines if is running u have luck.. good hack What does the mobo have to do with system lag anyway? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304575-constant-lagfreeze-on-yosemite/#findComment-2112700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 You can take a look in the Activity Util (Apple OS X app) and look for RAM usage (since 10.0 also how much RAM is compressed) if RAM is the prob. Also which processes maybe take to much cpu% over the time. Maybe some processes run not correct in the background like some utils / autostart objects and slow down the system by start/error/restart/error. In the console you would se such probs too. If you don´t have an SSD already it can speed up system much! I have C2Q 2,5 GHz CPU and switched from 4 to 6 GB RAM. Only a bit faster running VMWARE beside some apps. After that (4>6GB) i also buyed an SSD (250 GB, now really cheap) and the effect - overall feeling - was MUCH more than the switch from 4>6 GB RAM. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/304575-constant-lagfreeze-on-yosemite/#findComment-2112999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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