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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: El Capitan oddities
Date: 7 Oct 2015 00:10:16 GMT
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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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