on 7/30/02 9:53 PM, Ian Horner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my experience -- I'm open to correction -- the more apps you use, the > slower X goes, until it seems to have no direct bearing on processor speed > at all...
This should *only* be true if you don't have enough RAM to open/run all of the apps simultaneously. Unlike OS 9, which will "cap" your available RAM to the amount you've chosen for virtual memory in the Memory control panel, OS X will keep letting you open more and more (and more) applications, "creating" virtual memory as needed. The more applications (or files within those applications) you open, and the more often you switch between them, the more OS X will rely on virtual memory/paging, and the slower everything will go. The more RAM OS X has, the less of a performance hit you'll see when you have lots of stuff open. In fact, if your machine is working properly, if you have enough RAM you'll never see a performance hit from opening lots of stuff. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
