Re: Don't leak memory!!
Re: Don't leak memory!!
- Subject: Re: Don't leak memory!!
- From: Jens Bauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:49:54 +0100
Hi Kyle,
On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 04:57 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote:
I was victim for a quick memory-leak, and because Mail.app couldn't
allocate memory for its preferences (that it keeps reading and
writing all the time), I lost..
1: All my email account settings
2: A bunch of mailboxes (one for an entire email account, yep!)
3: Preferences in Finder (as usual!)
4: Some iTunes preferences
5: Who knows?
Ouch!!!
I have had similar problems, and I solved it by allocating a 1GB swap
partition
and setting it up to be mounted over /private/var/vm. That way, even
if something
leaks memory, I'll always have free hard-drive space, so the worst
that can
happen (And this does happen occasionally) is that the machine locks
solid and
requires a hard reboot. Much better than loosing all of ones email
records.
Wonderful idea. Why did I forget about the swap-partitions?
-I've used that on Linux always, but I never gave it a thought.
This is indeed something I plan to do! =)
Beware of the Belkin Universal UPS 800/1000/1200 client. It has a
very bad
tendency to leak memory if the UPS is connected, and chews lots of CPU
cycles when it isn't. yuck
Thanks for the warning. I don't have any UPS, other than the batteries
in my portable, which I use for Web-server. (This is the best UPS, last
for 10 hours, and it's much cheaper than all those "pro servers"). =)
Thanks for the tips! =)
Love,
Jens
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