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Re: El Capitan oddities

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: El Capitan oddities
Date	2015-10-07 00:10 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<d7j677F8epoU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2015-10-06, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <D239A664.5F2BC%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>, Snit
><usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>
>> For memory Memory Clean is free and pretty good. Not sure I would suggest
>> "cleaning" memory with it.
>
> memory cleaners are a complete waste of time and they are actually
> counterproductive because they interfere with he system's own memory
> management.

Yes. There are some very specific situations where purging can be
helpful; but for most situations it does more harm than good. 

I've got an old Mac mini maxed out with 2 GB of RAM running OS X 10.6
that often gets to a point where a memory leak causes SystemUIServer to
consume so much RAM that everything else slows down to a crawl. I could
restart the machine in those situations, but running a script to kill
SystemUIServer and purge memory fixes that issue without restarting.

-- 
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JR

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El Capitan oddities John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-05 19:45 -0400
  Re: El Capitan oddities nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-05 20:07 -0400
    Re: El Capitan oddities billy@MIX.COM - 2015-10-06 08:36 +0000
      Re: El Capitan oddities nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-06 10:08 -0400
    Re: El Capitan oddities Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 12:58 -0400
      Re: El Capitan oddities Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-06 17:19 +0000
        Re: El Capitan oddities Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 13:39 -0400
          Re: El Capitan oddities Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-06 17:54 +0000
            Re: El Capitan oddities Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 20:59 -0400
              Re: El Capitan oddities Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 00:59 +0000
                Re: El Capitan oddities Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-07 18:54 -0400
                Re: El Capitan oddities Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 00:21 +0000
                Re: El Capitan oddities Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 17:57 -0700
                Re: El Capitan oddities Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 17:24 +0000
                Re: El Capitan oddities nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 13:27 -0400
                Re: El Capitan oddities Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 17:31 +0000
                Re: El Capitan oddities "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gmail.com> - 2015-10-08 13:51 -0600
                Re: El Capitan oddities Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 20:21 +0000
                Re: El Capitan oddities Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 10:42 -0700
          Re: El Capitan oddities Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-06 16:25 -0700
            Re: El Capitan oddities nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-06 19:29 -0400
              Re: El Capitan oddities Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 00:10 +0000
              Re: El Capitan oddities Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 08:05 -0700
                Re: El Capitan oddities nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-07 12:09 -0400
                Re: El Capitan oddities Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 09:20 -0700
  Re: El Capitan oddities Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-10-06 13:09 +1300
  Re: El Capitan oddities Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-05 18:44 -0700
    Re: El Capitan oddities John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-06 00:58 -0400
      Re: El Capitan oddities Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-10-05 22:09 -0700
        Re: El Capitan oddities John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-05 22:44 -0700
      Re: El Capitan oddities Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-05 22:30 -0700
        Re: El Capitan oddities John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-06 04:30 -0400
  Re: El Capitan oddities xxx <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-10-06 03:18 -0400
    Re: El Capitan oddities John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-06 05:41 -0400
      Re: El Capitan oddities nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-10-06 08:42 -0600
        Re: El Capitan oddities Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-06 08:04 -0700
      Re: El Capitan oddities xxx <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-10-06 20:35 -0400
    Re: El Capitan oddities Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 12:59 -0400
      Re: El Capitan oddities xxx <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-10-06 20:32 -0400
        Re: El Capitan oddities Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-07 08:38 -0400
          Re: El Capitan oddities "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gmail.com> - 2015-10-07 07:44 -0600
            Re: El Capitan oddities Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-07 19:00 -0400
              Re: El Capitan oddities "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gmail.com> - 2015-10-07 20:52 -0600
                Re: El Capitan oddities Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-08 08:40 -0400
                Re: El Capitan oddities "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gmail.com> - 2015-10-08 08:30 -0600
          Re: El Capitan oddities xxx <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-10-08 01:54 -0400
            Re: El Capitan oddities John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-08 16:29 -0400
  MenuMeters (Was: Re: El Capitan oddities) befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2015-10-06 10:05 +0200
    Re: MenuMeters (Was: Re: El Capitan oddities) John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-06 05:43 -0400
  Re: El Capitan oddities Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 12:58 -0400
    Re: El Capitan oddities Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-06 16:13 -0700
      Re: El Capitan oddities John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-06 19:46 -0400
        Re: El Capitan oddities Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-06 17:10 -0700

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