[jamiemcf]

My system has crawled to a halt lately. I have a 1st gen 1.83Ghz Core Duo Macbook with 2x1Gb of RAM. Everything I do causes beach balls and I have no idea why it happened. I originally had 1gb of Apple supplied RAM but upgraded to 2gb of Crucial RAM back in February. How do I know if it's like gone faulty or something? Or could it be a program?

Programs I use everyday:
Mail
Adium
Flock
Vienna
iTunes
Transmission
Ecto
Last.FM

I frequently use iPhoto, Photoshop, ImageWell, 1001, Preview.

It is slowly causing my urge to throw my Macbook across the room to rise and I really don't want to do that. Oh I also use Shapeshifter, Yahoo Widgets, You:Control and Connect 360 in the background.

Please help!

[simonnr]

Make sure u check that all these lil apps your running.. are not set to run on start up in the background...
Connect 360 may be causing the problem..
Check your activity monitor and rank them by usage.. and see if any of these programs are eating up your memory..

With these types of problems... Its a good idea to.. back up your important data, grab your original cds.. do an erase and install..
and re install your applications.. and re load your data..

Its a pain in the arse.. but usually its a good way to rectify these things..

2 gigs of ram is heaps.. that macbook shud be flying!!

[jamiemcf]

Problem is I'm on holiday for 8 more weeks and don't have my original discs with me

[jamiemcf]

I seem to be using 1.9Gb of RAM but 1.04 of that is 'inactive' does that sound right? Seems like a lot.

[CharlesS]

ShapeShifter is a hack application that employs code injection. That'd be my first suspect. Disable ShapeShifter and the rest of those background apps you mentioned, and see if the problem goes away.

[Chuckit]

What version of Photoshop are we talking about here? I know CS1's memory usage seemed to balloon out of control on Intel.

[jamiemcf]

CS3 and yeh the system slows when I use it but most f the time it isn't open.