On May 1, 2015, at 4:18 am, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> The not too technical answer to why 4Gig is small today is because > OSes only ever get bigger, and apps only get bigger, and data only > ever gets bigger. My Macbook Pro is maxed out at 4G and is bursting at the seams, but I do run a few memory-intensive applications. However, in my case it's not just that the OS is getting bigger. MacOS has generally been pretty good in that respect, but I think the current version has a couple of memory leaks. I have one system process that's up to 1.97G but force-quitting it would log me out, which is a bit of an inconvenience. I'm getting close to doing so now. Safari also loves to eat memory and not let go of it. > My new iMac has sixteen (count 'em!) gigabytes of RAM and I have > already managed to max it out. Now I don't expect you'd be trying this > stunt, but I loaded-up K-3 12 DNG files from Lightroom into Photoshop > and proceeded to composite them. It worked, but when I tried to do > something else the iMac became very unresponsive while the disks got > real busy. It was swapping memory like crazy for many minutes before I > could continue. Ouch. Do you have an SSD? Actually it sounds like the money might be better spent upgrading to 32G! To think I have an Arduino on my desk with 2k of RAM: it's just like the good old days! Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
