I answer in the text :-) On 19/02/03 5:43, "John A. Ardelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 17:21 America/Halifax, Kim Gammelg�rd > wrote: > >> I probably could be doing better if I quit applications and reboot >> once in a while ;-) > > Actually, I doubt that would make much difference. Mac OS X manages > memory AMAZINGLY well, to the point where hidden applications take up > little or no processor time or memory. The only thing it will affect > is how quickly you can switch BETWEEN apps. THAT can be a bit sluggish > when you don't have enough memory. Well, amazingly is a very heavy word to use here. My reason for complaining is that when I get home from work and push the mouse to get the screen going and the screensaver to disappear, it can take up to 15 seconds before I can do anything. That is longer than it takes to wake up my iBook. The reason is that I am running a moving desktop () running the screen saver with Ken Burns effect using a handful of photos and running 13 other apps for a number of days, well my uptime is 5 days, so it is probably close to that. This makes the SystemUIServer eat 1.7 GB of memory alone. I restarted Safari yesterday, because I pushed cmd-q by accident, and it went down from 443 MB Vsize to 90 now. At this moment, I have no less than 35 swapfiles open(=2.7 GB!). So, I guess you are right, it is Amazingly how well the system tackles that load! But I am not impressed by the memory usage of the SystemUIServer at all, and neither that of other applications. This is why I think I could be doing better by quitting applications (and killing the SystemUIServer) more often. I would love to have RAM enough to handle this kind of load - incidentally, I have 12 GB in my AIX server at work, so I know the feeling ;-) - but given that I only have 512 MB in my iMac, I will get into some trouble just stopping the screen saver. Somehow I find it ghastly that 512 MB is simply not enough for ordinary stuff. On my iBook, I simply don't have the hard disk space for this, so there I kill the SystemUIServer and restart my browsers every other day or so, as they seem to be the worst RAM-eaters. > >> I rather watch DVD's in bed on the smaller 12" screen, than sit on a >> chair in front of my iMac. > > Yeah. I can imagine that watching movies in bed would kick a**... ;) > still, as a film purist, I think I'd rather have that big screen to > capture the greater detail, especially on Superbit DVDs. Hey if you are such a purist, you would never want to watch them on a small screen like the iMac's anyway ;-) If I get a new DVD, I usually hook up my iBook to my TV-set and watch it there, sometimes while surfing on my iMac, I must admit ;-) By the way, I must warn you about a thing that happened to me when I got my iMac 17". Every night when I came home from work for at least two weeks after I got it, I just sat down in front of the beauty and played with it, most nights realizing at 2 am that I forgot to eat dinner - again, but that I better get to bed. It is seriously addictive and loveable! Cheers, Kim -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
