Late 2014 27” 3.5 i5 questions

[DookSucks]

This is my work computer. I grabbed two, old HP w2072 monitors out of the firm’s tech room/cemetery to run my voip program and outlook on separate screens.

I have 8gb of ram and the 1tb fusion drive. Ever since I started running the Vonage app and the dual monitors, the machine is less responsive at times (spinning wheel / jerky mouse — and i have changed the mouse twice to check), and it’s very annoying.

I run Vonage, Outlook, Word (1-5 files of 2-10 pages of texts), Excel (1-2, simple 1-2 page files) Adobe PDF reader (2-5 files of 1-200 pages of text) and Firefox (3-6 tabs) constantly. I don’t see a lot of memory pressure when I check, but it’s not like I have activity monitor running constantly.

Are the external screens somehow exceeding the dedicated video memory? I can’t imagine so given that the monitors aren’t even 1080 and require TB2 to DVI adapters, and I can’t imagine the program’s I listed eating up that much memory.

What is happening?

 

[jerwin]

I have the same machine. I have one external display-- and no room on my desk for a second.

I also have 24 GB of RAM.

Activity monitor reveals that Windowserver leaks like a sieve, and consumes 9GB on my machine. Part of that may be associated with full screen video.

One thing you can do is consult Activity monitor, and see how much Swap is being used, and how much memory is being used to Cache files.

Although the CPU isn't fast enough for my liking, the only time my machine feels slow is when WinClone backs up my bootcamp installation. (and that stretch of time can be agonizingly slow) I'm pretty sure that's because it backs up to a hard drive-- and not to an SSD.

Does your voip program record a lot of data?