![]() ![]() ![]() It helps you monitor your disk space usage and free up space on your Mac. It will be useful to everyone who often uses large apps such as iMovie, iTunes, Adobe Photoshop, Pixelmator, and others.īesides monitoring your RAM usage, Memory Cleaner provides an additional feature called Disk Usage. Set up other conditions of RAM cleanup – Memory usage and CPU usage.Īlso, in the General tab of Memory Cleaner preferences, you can enable the option to automatically clean up RAM when large applications quit.For example, on the Frequency line, the points of the slider may have the following definitions: Move the sliders on the lines depending on how often you want the cleanup to occur.For this, click the arrow icon and open the settings for this option. If needed, you can change the frequency of automatic RAM cleanup.Switch on the option “Automatically free up”.Click the Memory Cleaner icon in the menu bar.You can change the settings right in the Memory Cleaner window. don't see so much of that these days, think the penny dropped with most users that it doesn't actually do anything.Memory Cleaner allows you to set up an automatic cleaning of your inactive memory. and the ones who were sponsored by CleanMyMac claiming it had some magical powers. ![]() I think some of this comes from YouTubers who spread FUD about the swap file wearing out the ssd (even though Windows systems have used the swap file in a much more aggressive way for decades). There are apps for both Windows and MacOS that claim to optimise your system - they are just snake oil - at best they might clean up a few MB/GB of disk space by removing left over junk from the library folder or user profile (which you can do yourself for free if you know where to look), at worst, they might break your system or be spyware. I'm of the view that if your system really is running slow, then although it's a real pain, rather than spend time on all these rubbish apps that claim to 'fix' your system, you'll get much better results doing a clean OS reinstall and just installing only the apps you use. If it needs to swap out some pages to disk then it will do so. If memory becomes pressured (because something wants to actively use more memory) then the operating system will start by releasing caches and compressed pages automatically to make way for the demand. Then instead of asking why your memory usage seems high, you’d instead be asking why tasks keep disappearing unexpectedly on your machine - that would be much more annoying. Swap is normally only used as a last resort but it is still better to let the operating system swap out pages to disk and do the right thing by itself, because the only alternative is for the kernel to just start killing tasks that are taking up memory. If memory pages aren’t being used then the kernel compresses them in memory to free up space for new processes but still maintain some of the benefits of having fast memory access. If the operating system can keep things in memory (because nothing else is using the space) then it will do so, because memory accesses are much faster than having to pull things from the disk and this leads to a smoother user experience. The kernel knows what it is doing and you really shouldn’t interfere with it. No, it isn’t worth having something to “free your RAM” periodically. ![]()
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