That's not normal, Jan. I operated my iMac (2008 2.8GHz model) for 2 years
with only 2Gb of RAM installed and I never had Aperture lock up.
Chris
On 27 Sep 2010, at 06:35, Jan Steinman wrote:
> I just picked up a used 2006 Mac Pro with 4 gigs. Sometimes Aperture or
> Photoshop seems to be locked up, but I can hear the disk going like mad.
> That's thrashing, and it means that there's not enough memory, and the OS is
> swapping virtual memory to disk. I have another 8 gigs on order.
>
> If you hear the disk going crazy when it slows down, yea, stick as much RAM
> in it as you can afford. In the mean time, make sure you don't have anything
> else running -- quit all your other applications. If that causes Photoshop to
> speed up and the disk noise to go away, you definitely need more RAM.
>
> I had 12 gigs in the Power Mac Quad G5 that I just retired for the Mac Pro,
> and I could P
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