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Re: Beach Ball Blues Again

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In article <pf9j7o$1ss9$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> >> It appears that 10.12.6 has a memory leak. When the problem got
> >> unbearable, I rebooted the system and it has gone away. My guess of a
> >> memory leak could explain the problem because of many VM swaps required
> >> to do anything at all.
> > 
> > I has a friend struggle with 10.12 on his bulked out development iMac. He'd
> > have Xcode and a bunch of stuff open, trying to develop and debug his iphone
> > app and he'd get all sorts of weird problems. Rebooting helped until the
> > problem happened again.
> > 
> > I'm running 10.10 and I can go a week on my 32GB MacPro before it starts
> > creating VM files. It was worse when I only had 14GB. The Kernel task just
> > keeps growing and growing until you reboot. I dumped 10.11 because it was
> > much worse.
> > 
> > My linux servers can stay up for months without issue, busily humming away
> > doing chip design stuff. My mac needs to be rebooted regularly to clear out
> > cruft. I guess Apple does not test for this.
> 
> Servers are doing almost nothing running bascially one "app" (the 
> server) - they sit there waiting for a file request, and then send that 
> file. On the other hand a desktop / laptop computer is doing 
> *everything* and running multiple apps ... at least until the computer 
> industry moves back to dumb terminals running everything in the 'cloud'.

servers run more than one app and are often under higher load than a
desktop/laptop, which is usually waiting on the human to type or click.

> Web browsers are often especially bad at having memory leaks. Problems 
> are also often caused by people simply not quitting apps they have 
> finished using, so they end up with lots of apps all using up "memory" 
> (real or virtual).

it's paged out, so not an issue.

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Beach Ball Blues Again csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-06-04 09:06 -0700
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Again nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-06-04 12:11 -0400
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-04 10:41 -0700
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Again csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-06-06 10:22 -0700
      Re: Beach Ball Blues Again dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-06-07 13:49 +1200
        Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-06-07 07:05 -0700
          Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-08 09:00 -0700
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-04 18:20 +0000
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Again gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2018-06-04 14:40 -0700
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-04 14:50 -0700
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Again "Tyrone F. Horneigh" <Nunya@Business.net> - 2018-06-04 19:26 -0400
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-05 00:22 -0700
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Elden <usenet@moondog.org> - 2018-06-04 19:04 -0700
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-06-05 10:02 +0000
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Again csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-06-06 10:18 -0700
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2018-06-06 11:33 -0700
      Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-06-07 09:20 +1200
        Re: Beach Ball Blues Again nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-06-06 17:40 -0400
      Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-07 01:03 +0000
        Re: Beach Ball Blues Again nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2018-06-07 05:28 -0600
          Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-07 16:36 +0000
        Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-06-17 17:38 +0000
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-07 00:53 +0000
      Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-07 08:56 -0700

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