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| Date | 2014-04-19 13:27 -0400 |
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| From | Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: DIMM memory order |
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On 2014.04.19, 13:15 , Lewis wrote:
> In message <yMWdnTCto8S64s_OnZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d@giganews.com>
> Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 2014.04.19, 05:35 , JF Mezei wrote:
>>> Interesting event tonight in wee hours. While in a pause for work on
>>> photoshop, the Activity Monitor which showed almost no free memory
>>> (24GB), all of a sudden showed a huge chunk of free memory.
>>>
>>> Suspect some daily batch job that does system maintenance that purged
>>> the disk cache behind the scenes.
>
>> Console doesn't log that AFAICT, but there is a Widget called
>> "Maintidget" that will show when maintenance scripts were last run. By
>> default they go at about 3 or 4 in the morning. (Daily, weekly and
>> monthly).
>
>> I changed mine to run about 5 minutes after the morning start time (eg:
>> after the computer wakes, but before I get to the computer).
>
> Maintenance scripts, unlike cron jobs, run opportunistically. If your
> computer is off at 3am, and one at 7am, the scripts will run shortly
> after 7am without changing them.
Back at the time I changed them (10.5 or 10.6) they did not run at all.
The change I described guaranteed they ran.
--
"Big data can reduce anything to a single number,
but you shouldn’t be fooled by the appearance of exactitude."
-Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, NYT, 2014.04.07
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DIMM memory order JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-10 02:11 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-10 15:12 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-10 15:15 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-11 00:27 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-04-11 01:26 -0700
Re: DIMM memory order dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-04-11 19:59 +1000
Re: DIMM memory order Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-04-11 07:32 -0700
Re: DIMM memory order dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-04-12 08:34 +1000
Re: DIMM memory order Dorian Grey <oscar@wild.net> - 2014-04-11 07:25 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-11 14:35 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-04-11 22:32 +0200
Re: DIMM memory order Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-11 17:06 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-16 22:17 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-18 00:25 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-18 10:14 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-18 12:59 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-19 05:35 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-19 09:50 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-04-19 17:15 +0000
Re: DIMM memory order Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-19 13:27 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-19 16:02 -0400
Re: DIMM memory order Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-19 20:33 -0400
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