Author Topic: Lion's Shitty Memory Management - or- This Cat is a Dog  (Read 3139 times)

hm_murdock

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SHITTAY.

http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management

Good thing I haven't had to get one of those Intel monstrosities yet. They look like they suck ass. But hey, at least the integer performance is a-ok!

But it seems that Lion is really over-aggressive in its disk caching and pages out based on a FIFO basis. Uh...

WTF

Do current releases of Darwin do this too?
Go the fuck ~

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Sticky wicket.

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The author of that page didn't even consider disabling Time Machine.
Which should be a good idea anyway, backs-ups are for silly nannies.

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Re: Lion's Shitty Memory Management - or- This Cat is a Dog
« Reply #3 on: 14 May 2012, 21:39 »
There's also backing up the standard way without any software.