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Re: Quitting all active applications
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Re: Quitting all active applications


  • Subject: Re: Quitting all active applications
  • From: "Sherm Pendley" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:53:03 -0400

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Phil Faber <email@hidden> wrote:

>
> All I'm trying to achieve is a tiny app that only quits open apps and then
> quits itself; the purpose being when I want to release as much memory and
> disc space as possible before I run another memory / processor intensive
> app.


Not much point in that, IMHO - the virtual memory system will usually swap
out inactive apps to make room when the active app needs more physical RAM.
And if an app is in the background just waiting for user input, it's taking
a tiny amount of CPU anyway.

sherm--

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