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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: hm_murdock on 6 May 2012, 03:00

Title: Lion's Shitty Memory Management - or- This Cat is a Dog
Post by: hm_murdock on 6 May 2012, 03:00
SHITTAY.

http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management (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?
Title: Re: Lion's Shitty Memory Management - or- This Cat is a Dog
Post by: Laukev7 on 7 May 2012, 02:08
Sticky wicket.
Title: Re: Lion's Shitty Memory Management - or- This Cat is a Dog
Post by: Refalm on 7 May 2012, 09:37
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.
Title: Re: Lion's Shitty Memory Management - or- This Cat is a Dog
Post by: reactosguy on 14 May 2012, 21:39
There's also backing up the standard way without any software.