I assume this explains why my iMac seemed so slow last night after I turned it back on. We didn't have a power outage, but I shut down my machine just in case. Today I need to go out in the yard and pick up branches.
Anne Cartwright Lee Larson wrote: > > > Since the power died last night, I just rebooted the machine for the > first time in ages. That's why the free memory is so large. as I > continue to use the machine, more stuff will get cached, and the free > memory will dwindle. This is a good thing because frequently used data > is being cached. As this happens, the whole system speeds up because > your machine doesn't have to go to the slow hard drives as often. This > is one reason why I hardly ever shut down a Mac OS X machine. People > who shut down their machine every night may be taking a performance hit. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
