Fragmentation isn't a thing on the Mac but yes 196G free shouldn't cause even the slightest problem. My whole SSD is 256Gb with about half of that free.
I couldn't really speculate on what's actually causing the trouble... I might be inclined to agree with Paul. Cheers, Dave > On Nov 15, 2016, at 1:34 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know that much about Macs but on Windows the you only need about > twice as much paging file as actual physical memory, and if you're hard drive > which you seem to have. But if your drive is fragmented then even with > enough paging file, it can slow down the system when more paging space is > allocated. I don't know if disk defragmenting is a thing with a Mac, but if > it I'd try that first. > > On 11/14/2016 7:13 PM, David J Brooks wrote: >> The last few months my browsers freeze up and i have to force quit and >> shut down and restart. I have been avoiding the click bate sites but >> sometime clicking on a video that has been shared seems to follow with >> a freeze up. Just recently when i turn on the computer i get the grey >> screen and no apple logo, i shut it off again and restart then it >> seems to be ok. This jsut started last week. Old OS 10.6.8 plus my >> browsers are not in line for up dates any more, Chrome and Firefox. >> I'm down to 196 GIG on a 500 Gig HD. Could this be part of it.?? >> I have fixed permissions and run Macscan 1-2 a month to get rid of the >> tracking cookies. >> >> Dave >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
