On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:10:51AM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > Andy Armstrong <a...@hexten.net> writes: > > It's thinking "I wish I had more memory. I wish he'd disable that > > Dashboard shite." > > Why is it that we have "nice" for our mostly-idle CPUs, but no > way to say "sorry, Dashboard, you only get 30 megs -- deal with > it"? It's only been, what, a decade since CPU speed has been all > but meaningless? I'm normally a big fan of the best technology > of the 70s and 80s, but in this case...
I've "achieved" this on unix (linux) with ulimit. MacOSX may offer same. Of course the usual result is the gui app exits (or crashes) when it exceeds the limit, although in rare cases (some java apps, since the jvm has so much wasted space to begin with) I've seen it just live with it, if only for a finite time. For a while I ran Mozilla/Firefox this way, if only to force a restart of the program periodically but eventually found I preferred to restart it when I wasn't in the middle of something I cared about. -josh
