Re: encrypted swap file

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: encrypted swap file
Date	2015-10-08 17:43 -0700
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On 10/8/15, 5:07 PM, in article mv70bi$76r$1@dont-email.me, "John Somerset"
<somerset@nospam.com> wrote:

> On 10/8/15 7:42 PM, Snit wrote:
>> On 10/8/15, 3:22 PM, in article mv6q79$kfg$2@dont-email.me, "John Somerset"
>> <somerset@nospam.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/8/15 5:49 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2015-10-08, John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/8/15 4:44 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
>>>>>> On 2015-10-08 16:13, John Somerset wrote:
>>>>>>> I wonder if Safe Mode clears _all_ system caches.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Safari is not a "system" stuff, it is just an application. And its cache
>>>>>> is at application level likely in ~Library.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I believe Safari has more than one cache.  I did not say they are system
>>>>> caches.  Snit said I should just toss the User Cache folder.  I was not
>>>>> aware that all user caches were in one folder, but I assume Safari
>>>>> caches are user caches. For some reason, cleaning caches was a big task
>>>>> for Safari.
>>>> 
>>>> ~/Library/Caches holds most user caches.
>>>> 
>>> I wonder why it took Safari took so long, and wrote to disk so much,
>>> just to toss out some folders.  (Maybe 10.9 was the last time I had
>>> Safari clear its caches.)
>> 
>> Safari is not know for being exactly resource friendly. Not sure any modern
>> browser is.
>> 
> I wonder if Firefox is my problem.  I use it when Safari won't do what I
> want.  (Sometimes going to Safari preferences and switching off all
> extensions would get Safari to work on certain pages.  That switch seems
> to be gone.)

I do the same with Chrome. I do also have FireFox but find it slow and
buggy. Sometimes my mouse pointer will even disappear... if I move up to the
menu and click it shows up again. Weird. Have not seen that with the new
update but have only been in Firefox very briefly.

> Starting with Yosemite, I noticed that Firefox sometimes took a long
> time, maybe half a minute, to quit. I wonder if Firefox could have
> bloated caches, and when I quit, Yosemite was saving them to the swap
> file.  I'll have to investigate!

Never had any problem with Firefox quitting... that I recall anyway.

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encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 16:53 -0400
  Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 21:12 +0000
    Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 18:35 -0400
      Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 16:39 -0700
        Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 20:01 -0400
          Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 00:24 +0000
            Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 21:51 -0400
              Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 03:01 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 16:23 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 20:41 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 17:47 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 22:00 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 18:19 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file billy@MIX.COM - 2015-10-08 23:40 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 20:00 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-08 20:06 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 20:35 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 17:34 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-09 18:41 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 15:29 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-09 14:31 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 18:42 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 18:44 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-10 10:09 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-11 02:06 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-09 14:09 +1300
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 22:00 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-09 15:29 +0000
          Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 17:44 -0700
            Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 22:01 -0400
              Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 19:09 -0700
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 16:13 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-08 16:44 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 16:49 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-08 16:51 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 16:56 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-08 17:52 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-08 19:51 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 17:34 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 21:49 +0000
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 18:22 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 16:42 -0700
                Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 20:07 -0400
                Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 17:43 -0700
                Re: encrypted swap file Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 16:54 -0700
      Re: encrypted swap file Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 00:22 +0000
        Re: encrypted swap file John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-07 21:58 -0400

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