– Starting with OS X 10.5 there are evident memory management problems in MAC OS X. The web was already then cluttered with complaints about system slowing down dramatically after some time. Back then i had slower machine, Mac Mini with 1GB RAM, so i (wrongly) concluded that it was due to inferior hardware. — Now i have 2010 MBP, core i7, 8 GB RAM, dual GPU. Mac os X Snow Leopard was pain, but after migrating to OS X Lion, working some serious stuff on MAC started to be a nightmare. — I finally managed to reproduce the problematic scenario, so i run the test and recorded the screen, into video. I run the tar+bzip command, which is basic unix stuff, on the large amount of picture files, in my Pictures/ folder. Just before start, i run the “purge” command, to delete inactive/cached program data. — You can see on the video that free memory starts to drop very fast, and inactive is constantly rising. If you take a look at “bsdtar” command, it takes only a fragment of RAM, so the problem is not in this process. You cannot say that it is a program memory leak, because then the problem would not be in inactive ram, rather in active/wired. — When the free memory dropped below 100mb, i started some apps, like Safari, iPhoto and MS Word, and you can see in the video, that it takes even minutes (!) to start an app, when normally (when there is free RAM), it would take some 3-5 secs to load. — I run the same scenario and the same commands on my Linux Centos 6 box, no problem …
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Computer Problems That Registry Easy Scans and Fixes
Download @ tinyurl.com Registry Easy – Registry Cleaner Review Registry Easy is a registry repair software that provides you to safely clean and repair your PCs. Have you been a victim of this scenario? Your computer is slowing down so you were forced to buy a new memory module or hard drive to help solve it but, nothing actually improved. You don’t need to upgrade your hardware the moment your PC slows down. Most of the time slow performances may be resolved by using registry cleaners like Registry Easy that you can purchase and download online. Inconsistent registry entries and damaged files are, most of the time, the reason why the computer is running like a turtle. Since the registry entries are unfamiliar ground to less technical people, reg cleaners like Registry Easy can detect the problematic files and fix it for them with a few simple mouse clicks. However, a lot of people may ask what registry cleaners, particularly Registry Easy, can do for their system. The following are the features and the problems that these registry cleaners can fix for you: First of all, the software will scan the system for any problems like corrupted registry entries. After scanning, it will help the user fix the issues in the registry by repairing or deleting them. Once the registry has been cleaned up, you will notice how optimized your computer’s performance is. Most of the time, a lot of applications fail to launch because of these conflicts in the registry. This is where you will …