“Macs, like all computers, are prone to break down eventually,” Rahul Saigal writes for Envato Tuts+.
“With continuous use, efficiency can degrade and the machine may start behaving erratically,” Saigal writes. “A physical component could fail, files may not open, search may get slower or irrelevant and more.”
“There are three goals of system monitoring—prevention, troubleshooting, and resolution. You can preemptively monitor any Mac in real time through monitoring utilities. This tells you how the system is using resources and the way it’s performing,” Saigal writes. “Maintenance and monitoring tools works together in a synergy.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Good, easy-to-follow instructions for using Activity Monitor and other apps, strategies to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve Mac issues.
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I don’t do anything to my Mac mini or MacBook Pro.
My mini has been running 24/7 for about 4 years.
Never had any issues.
I have bunches of minis, something like 30 in active use. Very easy to maintain for general office use as database clients, business browsing, communications, word processing, spreadsheets etc. They all started out with spinning hard drives.
I have upgraded most from 2 to 5 mb ram when the price became right and the new OS’s needed it.
By the law of averages, the drives on some are starting to fail. At the first sign I swap the drive for a 60GB SSD startup drive. Total investment perhaps $110 with RAM. Plus, unlike the iMac they are not chained to a monitor, allowing graceful adaptability to third part matching dual displays. When the keyboards go, they are replaced by Logitech wireless solar kb’s that run off of office lighting. These machines are now quite awesome for their intended use, and easy to move around.
With these two changes, I expect another four years of general purpose office use without any compromises, especially if Cook remains asleep at the wheel.
I have been using mac since last 6 years and hardly faced any issues as far as performance is concern. As I do work as developer, sometime my app takes too much memory and stuck in the middle of the development. I have latest version of xCode and using various methods to force quick mac explain in article mentioned at my web part.
Apart from those, do you have any recommendation to force quick mac?
Do you mean ‘force quit’ or something else?
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To quicken the speed of a Mac, which is what I believe you mean Morries, I suggest three things:
1) Use an SSD drive (solid state drive). The speed up compared to a hard drive is dramatic. A ‘Fusion Drive’, as Apple calls them, is a very good compromise and also provides a nice speed up.
2) Max out your RAM. Once a system has to turn to your drive for virtual memory, you’re either computing at a glacial speed or you’re into nauseating Sit & Spin Mode, as I call it.
3) Keep your boot drive well repaired. Regularly running Disk Utility on it is a start. But I consistently find that better disk utilities find plenty more to repair. (DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro, DiskTools Pro, Drive Genius, etc.) At the very least, I repair my boot drive before ANY macOS update.
Of lesser importance but useful are:
4) Making sure your Mac performs its Daily, Weekly, Monthly maintenance routines. (Onyx is a free solution).
5) Dumping cache files. I often find that wonky Mac problems are solved by dumping browser cache, user cache, and occasionally system cache. (Onyx again, free).
6) Dig through your ‘Login Items’ (found in the Users & Groups system preferences pane) and dump what you don’t use.
[You can go even deeper by removing Library LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons and PrivilegedHelperTools. But I don’t recommend this unless you know exactly what you’re doing.]
There are plenty more tricks and fixes. But these top 6 are a good start.