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I've been trying to use Xcode 4 on my 1GB Mac Mini. It's not a happy situation. It frequently slows way down, presumably due to memory shortages.

Are there any settings I can change so it won't be such a memory hog?

William Jockusch
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Another post here suggests that the problem may be having the "predictive compilation turned on in the Xcode preferences."

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I ended up doing the following. None of them reduced Xcode's memory consumption, but they did reduce the memory needed by other programs, and hence solved my problem -- speed is fine now.

  • Start using chrome instead of Firefox
  • Turn off spotlight and dashboard
  • Don't auto-launch iTunes
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