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> If you’re really using too much, the system will either get horribly slow or you’ll get a dialog asking you to force quit apps. Yes, she was getting both. T
by monocasa 6y ago
> If you’re really using too much, the system will either get horribly slow or you’ll get a dialog asking you to force quit apps.
Yes, she was getting both. To the point that I asked her to keep activity monitor running in the background so we could see who the problem applications were.
I'm not sure why this is in question.
- astrange 6y agoBecause "physical memory" being high in Activity Monitor doesn't actually tell you things that cause that dialog to appear. (Unfortunately.) That and a 1GB Firefox tab isn't quite enough to do it. If "compressed" or "swap space" approach 32GB+/64GB+ (depends on amount of physical memory installed) that can do it, but running out of disk space is a more common problem. Of course, quitting the top app in the memory list probably is going to fix the issue.
- monocasa 6y agoI literally just confirmed that she was getting force quit messages. I had to have her leave activity monitor open in the corner because it was running so slow it wouldn't open.