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Restarting is great

G99

G99

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It might just be me, but doesn't restarting make everything run so much more smoother? I feel so fresh when I restart, because everything is blazing fast, and no problems with anything occur. I should really restart more often...
What are your thoughts? Does restarting help you guys, as much as it helps me?
 
Used to be once or twice a day. Now I'm trying to break the habit.
Down to a few times a week now :D
And yeah, it seems to run so much better with the frequent restarts. Maybe not as much as a Windows PC, but still better
 
i dont like restarting, only do it when required because takes to long to load and for me it isnt that faster in fact it feels slower
 
I restart once or twice a week, just to clean things up a bit... when you're running a bit low on HD space that's actually noticeably...

Tiger is getting better though, up to and including 10.4.4 I more or less had to restart several times daily, because OS X literally used to "eat up" resources and only release it again through a restart... with 10.4.5 and 10.4.6 much of this appears to have been fixed, though, but I still like to restart every now and then, my poor old iBook seems to like that... ;)
 
semaja2 said:
i dont like restarting, only do it when required because takes to long to load and for me it isnt that faster in fact it feels slower
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Go buy an Intel Machine. Speedy Sppedy:cool: ;) :p
 
I only restart when the power goes out or I go away for the weekend. But I usually sleep it every night.

Its been up (with naps) for like 3 weeks now. Not that I am one of those "my uptime is bigger than yours" kind of guys, I really don't care. I just don't see a difference in rebooting.

Except on my windows system, that I reboot daily! :D
 
G99 said:
It might just be me, but doesn't restarting make everything run so much more smoother? I feel so fresh when I restart, because everything is blazing fast, and no problems with anything occur. I should really restart more often...
What are your thoughts? Does restarting help you guys, as much as it helps me?
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Yes it does seem like that!
I was wondering the same thing, thanks for posting this.
 
My machine is exactly as fast after a restart (which I hardly ever do) as it is before. If you're finding a noticeable improvement after restarting, that means something is going wrong. Probably a program has a memory leak or something.

--Eric
 
cherfizzle said:
Yes it does seem like that!
I was wondering the same thing, thanks for posting this.
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There are some strange things that I think are not purely imagination... for instance, on my iBook, at least, free HD space goes down by ~1.5-2 GB over the course of a month without rebooting. And stuff does seem to slow down, as others have stated. With a reboot, I get that 2 gigs back. And the speed. Hmmm....
 
mkrishnan said:
There are some strange things that I think are not purely imagination... for instance, on my iBook, at least, free HD space goes down by ~1.5-2 GB over the course of a month without rebooting. And stuff does seem to slow down, as others have stated. With a reboot, I get that 2 gigs back. And the speed. Hmmm....
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That space is virtual memory that built up over time. OS X rarely overwrites inactive virtual memory if you have more hard drive space available. It is freed on reboot.
 
I actually am gonna try to not restart my mini for a while...I ran out of the 100 gigs of space I have in there, and at least this way I know I still have over a gig left with all my apps open. Once I restart, who knows what it'll look like.

On a side note, once I broke the reboot habit by getting a mac, I find I just sleep my XP laptop a lot more than I turn it off, and it's still very stable. Who would've thunk that it took OS X to make me realize how stable XP is and how bad of a rep it gets.
 
Pistol Pete said:
well it helps because it frees up all of the ram....
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See, now, between this and what Grapes said... my impression is that, as far as real RAM is concerned, actually just closing all of your programs and giving the system a few seconds to garbage collect, should be enough. Cleaning the VM file is another issue, I guess, but....

Anyway, I do think emptying out VM on reboot seems to help.
 
ChrisFromCanada said:
I don't like restarting because I have to reload dashboard and it doesn't feel any faster, but that could be because with 4GB of RAM there is always enough free RAM so clearing it is pointless.
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You probably have a lot less VM usage than my iBook does. ;) Or at least less page-ins.
 
when i used a PC for my primary back then i would restart it a few times a day. now with my powerbook, i usually restart it once a week. the gig of ram just keeps everything running smoothly no matter what, and of course OS X. i only restart if its running terribly slow (never happens) or i just installed a game
 
ohh yah restarting, that thing only pc's have todo...:rolleyes:
i only restart after some of the updates or when i crash the computer.
Now i deserve this from running WoW, procesing video, and watching hi-def H.264 videos all at the same time...
 
What's wrong with just shutting down everyday?

I don't understand why restarting/shutting down is so frowned down upon? I normally leave my PB for the whole day and shut it down at night. What's a minute for turning on a computer (and about 15 seconds for dashboard)?

At least for me, I think psychologically restarting makes the computer seem snappier because IMO I don't think it made any difference. :confused:
 
when i'm at school i almost never bother to restart...

at home now though, i probably restart at least a few times a week. generally after having run onyx. i wouldn't ever say there's been much of a noticeable difference in performance, but it sure is a great way to fight boredom. (i spent many hours of procrastination in high school manually cleaning sh*t out the registry on my old windows box).
 
I only bother to restart after a software update, or when the PowerBook is starting to feel sluggish, which is generally once every month or two. I restarted the other day when I realised it had been up 51 days and Safari was being really slow. The iMacs generally stay up longer (that's when they're not restarting by themselves :rolleyes: )
 
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