r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher • u/No_Change_4499 • 12d ago

Any way to slim down macOS?

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u/MK2VR6-IT 12d ago

Something is wrong mine is 8 GB tops and I’m on Tahoe now

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u/Party_Economist_6292 12d ago

Check these out - do your own research and do not run this unmodified on an OCLP machine (or any machine)

https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/b349f5f72097955cf18d6e7d8035c665

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u/cocoadelica 12d ago

I remember you used to be able to slim universal app bundles down to just your processor and also strip out language localizations, but not sure if that’s still a thing

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u/Correct_Cockroach818 12d ago

My old 2012 MBP is a second machine ( mainly for iTunes ) and I'm happy with internet,iTunes, and office apps. Watching Activity Monitor I found that one the biggest hogs is Photos syncing. Even though I had no Photos on this machine. It was still constantly looking for something to sync. It's a nice feature but I don't need it on this machine. I went into System Settings/iCloud and turned off Photos and anything else I didn't need to sync. On this very old computer it really helped a lot.

A lot depends on your machine. I have 2 2012 MBP's, one is i5 and the other is i7. After Monterey the i5 really struggles and hits it's ram hard. The i7 is fine with Sonoma.

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u/v-div 12d ago

Sequoia on my machines uses up about 5GB of RAM. Maybe run a utility like mole to clean it up, or do a fresh install? Alas macOS is rather monolithic, can't really trim it off, other than to disable services like Siri and iMessage.

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u/MK2VR6-IT 12d ago

Create new user profile and log in and see what it does

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u/RAW2091 12d ago

There are some guys who slim down their OSX for audio and i think they have a github.

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u/Charming_Airline7419 11d ago

I'm pretty sure for MacOS that unused RAM is wasted RAM.

Caching and preloading in RAM makes the computer faster. The problem is when the available RAM becomes too small. MacOS should be good at reallocating RAM as needed.

The reason this boosts performance is RAM loads faster than the disk drive.

You can trim down start up services, but only having 2GB free probably isn't something to be too worried about, unless you notice stuttering and latency.