Re: a way to clear inactive RAM
Re: a way to clear inactive RAM
- Subject: Re: a way to clear inactive RAM
- From: Jack Carbaugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:30:49 -0500
On Nov 6, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Jack Carbaugh <email@hidden> wrote:
> Facebook is a safari killer. if left open, it will bring down a system. And by bring down I mean, make it so unresponsive that the only option is a forced reboot via power button. It happened everyday on my other half's clean system, until i set up automatic log off. (He could never remember to just close the tab.)
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> On Nov 6, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Uli Kusterer <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 06.11.2012, at 16:08, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> Actually, that's not always the case. As I use Safari through out the day, Safari ends up eating 6 to 12 GB of data on my 16 GB system. Frequently, I need to issue a purge to get back a spare GB or few hundred MB. Plus, if you're booting off, or have your swap file on an SSD disk related performance penalties will be much less than if using an HD to hold the swap file.
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>> Err ... if I understand correctly, you're nuking the caches used by the system and other applications to compensate for the problem that Safari, when left open, leaks like a sieve ... ? Those two things are orthogonal.
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>> Cheers,
>> -- Uli Kusterer
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