Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!kreme.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lewis Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Activity Monitor: memory question Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:53:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Miskatonic U Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <562d4274$0$25235$c3e8da3$e408f015@news.astraweb.com> <251020151701596353%nospam@nospam.invalid> <562d4873$0$27630$c3e8da3$fdf4f6af@news.astraweb.com> <261020150821045748%nospam@nospam.invalid> Injection-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:53:16 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: kreme.eternal-september.org; posting-host="67a6ffcad0084cff2eaf00478b4e9e19"; logging-data="30653"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19xfMDLETVeYFfp/MBfejP1" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Darwin) X-Face: )^b5"R:T7U>9~:PEn3YkzMfW*[b1qKeU.fP9C8~8HpU9}lA&6`bH1z Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y8ynkZJxbmHGrZt/M0UDhkTbWAc= X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Mail-Copies-To: nobody Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:84207 In message <261020150821045748%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam wrote: > In article , Lewis > wrote: >> >>> I have a green band that covers perhaps the lower 1/3 of the box. >> >> >> >> that's good >> >> > How can it be good when the system has 2 gigs paged out, and 5 gigs >> > "compressed" ? Shouldn't that show red ? >> >> Nope. As has been explained to you MANY times, your assumptions about >> memory in OS X are entirely 100% wrong in every possible way. All those >> things that you keep doing to "improve" things are fucking up your >> computer. >> >> You disabled compressed memory. This proves what a ignorant fool you >> are. For fuck's sake, many very intelligent people developed the memory >> management in OS X. Many of those people have spent literally *decades* >> on memory management. >> >> But no, YOU know better than they. > a lot of people think they know more than the designers of the > operating system. just look at the number of 'memory cleaner' apps > available, all of which are garbage and make things worse. Yep. -- I can't die, I haven't seen The Jolson Story