12-04-2011, 09:32 AM
I have a 2009 Mini with Nvidia graphics.
'Had dropouts in streaming video and general OS slowdowns after a couple of hours of watching Netflix and Hulu and noticed that there were many page-outs in the Activity Monitor... basically, Silverlight and Flash stink at memory-management and over a surprisingly brief period they were taking down the whole OS with virtual memory caching.
I only had to go from 2GB to 4GB of RAM to fix it.
Run the Activity Monitor. Look at System Memory > Page Outs. If you see more than a couple of hundred MB of page outs after a day's use then you need more RAM.
'Had dropouts in streaming video and general OS slowdowns after a couple of hours of watching Netflix and Hulu and noticed that there were many page-outs in the Activity Monitor... basically, Silverlight and Flash stink at memory-management and over a surprisingly brief period they were taking down the whole OS with virtual memory caching.
I only had to go from 2GB to 4GB of RAM to fix it.
Run the Activity Monitor. Look at System Memory > Page Outs. If you see more than a couple of hundred MB of page outs after a day's use then you need more RAM.