Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upgrading to Mavericks Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <290320141609111761%otto@bogus.address.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1396266494 4687 166.84.1.5 (31 Mar 2014 11:48:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:58240 Kevin McMurtrie writes: > Anything is better than 10.7. > > I put 10.9 on two laptops and they run much better than 10.7 and 10.8. > The virtual memory problems introduced in 10.7 are mostly fixed. In > most cases, 10.9 virtual memory will outperform 10.6. I'm only seeing > lingering problems with processes using extremely large amounts of > memory. Yes, this is finally functioning as it should. > On the downside, they're still prone to momentary stalling and video > glitches that never happened with 10.6. Native support for large TIFF > is totally broken. QuickTime is still incomplete. Then there's com.apple.IconServicesAgent. Open a dir with 4300 photos, all of which have thumbnail images in their icons created by Graphic Converter (in other words, no need to read the images and render icons from them), and watch your quad-CPU machine grind away for many minutes before anything useful can be seen. The same thing only takes about ten seconds on a dual-G4 running 10.3.9. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number