I too realized SL requires frequent reboots to keep it snappy,else it starts dragging even to open a mail app or even dashboard!
This happens even when I am casually surfing(not youtube sites).
Lately I have found two reasons why my MBA turns on fan or starts dragging:
1. Swap: When my MBA starts for the first time and with safari open, the free memory is around 1.2GB. After few hours of browsing and after using few apps like Mail, Textedit and closing them completely, the free memory starts hovering around 400-500M. Looks like there is a memory leak as I cannot get back to original free memory even with quitting all the apps. It is just a matter of time before free memory becomes ~30MB and the MBA starts swapping with 100MB.
2. I use my MBA mostly for surfing, and sometimes I often I see this process WebKitPlugin, lately I have seen it spinning or rather hogging my CPU resources to 79%!! I have mentioned in this post:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/800178/
The bottomline is I have started using the Unix based laptop more as a DOS based and reboot everyday or couple of times on weekends. The only plus point of SL is reboot times is faster.
Regards
This happens even when I am casually surfing(not youtube sites).
Lately I have found two reasons why my MBA turns on fan or starts dragging:
1. Swap: When my MBA starts for the first time and with safari open, the free memory is around 1.2GB. After few hours of browsing and after using few apps like Mail, Textedit and closing them completely, the free memory starts hovering around 400-500M. Looks like there is a memory leak as I cannot get back to original free memory even with quitting all the apps. It is just a matter of time before free memory becomes ~30MB and the MBA starts swapping with 100MB.
2. I use my MBA mostly for surfing, and sometimes I often I see this process WebKitPlugin, lately I have seen it spinning or rather hogging my CPU resources to 79%!! I have mentioned in this post:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/800178/
The bottomline is I have started using the Unix based laptop more as a DOS based and reboot everyday or couple of times on weekends. The only plus point of SL is reboot times is faster.
Regards