At 4:11 PM -0700 9/19/05, Ryan Butler wrote:
On Sep 18, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
This thread has been about the hardware.
This is kind of a vague thought. But don't good things happen in
terms of hard drive and OS X housekeeping when one turns off the
Mac and boots it up again? Shouldn't this be a regular weekly or
monthly routine? At the very least, an overly long startup time
could indicate that something is acting up that you'd never know
about otherwise.
when one turns off the mac, and then boots it up again, the vm
(virtual memory) files as well as the temporary items folders are
cleared out, thus clearing up a small amount of disk space (of
course it gets used again when the vm files are recreated, or an
application puts something in the temp items folder.
however, i think you are thinking about the maintenance routines
that happen at around 2am when your computer is on, but it would
have to not be sleeping for that to happen.
A good hunk of those VM files will get purged when you log out as
they are for applications opened by the user. Of the others some
will be the same size as before. In other words you can accomplish a
lot of what restarting buys you by simply logging out.
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