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Re: Beach Ball Blues Again

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On 2018-06-06 18:33:06 +0000, Percival John Hackworth said:
> On 06-Jun-2018, Charles H. Sampson wrote
> (in article<1npyxqq.1tv9cb81n1pqc8N%csampson@inetworld.net>):
>> Charles H. Sampson<csampson@inetworld.net>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm seeing a lot of spinning beach balls (or pinwheels) on my newish
>>> iMac running 10.12.6. These are close to disabling at times, forcing the
>>> user to do something else while waiting. They appear most often in Word,
>>> but Chrome isn't far behind. Sometimes they appear as Finder is
>>> launching an application.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>>> 
>>> By "newish" I mean less than one year old. I posted a similar question
>>> around four years ago, but I was running a way-outdated system on an old
>>> computer then.
>> 
>> I got a lot of good responses. Thanks to all. For the record, I had
>> checked Disk Utility and Activity Monitor. Neither showed any particular
>> problem.
>> 
>> 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'.

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).

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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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