How does it work? It just runs in the background?
Don't bother OS X handles ram brilliantly by using as much as it can to keep your Mac running as fast as possible clearing ram will just slow it down, unused ram is wasted ram.
How does it work? It just runs in the background?
How does it work? It just runs in the background?
Don't bother OS X handles ram brilliantly by using as much as it can to keep your Mac running as fast as possible clearing ram will just slow it down, unused ram is wasted ram.
I have not found that to be the case. The problem is that after the application closes, the RAM is still tied up. My old copy of iMovie use to tie up gads of RAM and then when I closed it down it was still tied up. Dr Cleaner will remove that. I agree that unless you are running out of RAM, or Virtual pulls are becoming excessive, you should not optimize in the middle of an application. I still have a bit of problem with that in my 12 gb iMac, but not yet in my 16gb MBP.
Yes, you are right. You know much more than I do. I am basing only on my experienceBelieve you meant swap, not cache there.
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In my opinion final experience for user is always superposition of hardware + software (it is not just hardware specs!). From my observations PC nowadays could only compete with Mac by stuffing more CPU and/or RAM, hoping that user will hook up - especially "specs collectors".
Or if you need to run an Active Directory server, albeit again, if Macs had more customisable hardware, I think they'd make for better servers too, purely on the basis of the Unix shell. Though Linux gets the best of both worlds on that
Could start a business hosting servers with Mac Minis and do pretty well.
Oh wait, someone already is:![]()