Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: android Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Dock won't pop up Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:58:01 +0200 Organization: the center of color Imaging for the color blind probono institute Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <53413c5d$0$46052$c3e8da3$88b277c5@news.astraweb.com> <77KdncRtxpMCDNfOnZ2dnUVZ_hOdnZ2d@giganews.com> X-Trace: individual.net VkZPWP3EqAX1NmjjCacSTQjmj/53aldjVibWc0KOTa1m47Vnch X-Orig-Path: here Cancel-Lock: sha1:rS9Ir0PwFBkh32fU0/IMkkvUZBA= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:58519 In article <77KdncRtxpMCDNfOnZ2dnUVZ_hOdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2014.04.12, 21:57 , John McWilliams wrote: > > On 4/8/14 PDT, 2:09 PM, Alan Browne wrote: > >> On 2014.04.07, 20:37 , dorayme wrote: > >>> In article , > >>>> > >>>> What makes you take steps to avoid restarting a computer? Often > >>>> enough a > >>>> restart does good things. > >>> > >>> Puzzled me too, a restart is like opening the window to a good breeze > >>> when someone has farted. > >> > >> For MS Windows I agree. > >> > >> OS' that need a reboot for "freshness" are flawed. > >> > > Ah, so you're the Christian Scientist of Macdom! > > I'm just a rational user who has a stable OS that runs w/o issues or > memory leaks (that in part is I don't seem to have apps that leak much). > I'm certainly not the only one who does this. I would agree since i sometimes only reboot the putter once a week or so, but... If you've managed to generate a lot of swap then it' can be a good idea to reboot since the OSX do not eat back the swaps that promptly after the apps that craved them have been closed and the removal of those swaps seem to speed up things quite a bit. Oki, I'm on SL here and fresher cats and cattle might behave differently. -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography