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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: 10.9 - disabling memory compression
Date: 15 Apr 2014 02:10:40 GMT
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On 2014-04-14, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> In article <534adc8b$0$18926$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com>,
> Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmm. There's a bunch of people (including my other half) complaining of 
>> getting "your computer is running out of application memory" errors that 
>> no one (certainly not anyone from Apple) knows how to fix. The basic 
>> Apple Duhfense League response seems to be "repair the the permissions." 
>> Yeah, right. Would this compressed memory thingie have ought to do with 
>> this? I haven't had the problem on the MacBook Pro with 4 gigs RAM, but 
>> the fancy new iMac (with 8 gigs) does it from time to time.
>
> Housekeeping? You can quit a PC app from a window. You need to quit an
> app with the Mac from the menu or command-q. My wife, who uses a PC at
> work and a Mac at home, instinctively closes a window with that red dot
> and assumes that the app has quit. She's getting better.

It may come as a surprise to some that different doesn't automatically
mean inferior.

> Get a whole bunch of dormant apps and associated limbo files and memory
> becomes an issue regardless of compression. Restart works well. Just a
> thought.

And just because some random person says memory becomes an issue doesn't
automatically make it true.

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