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hm. mine is always fully used 😀
but well..

which program allows you to put it the uptime, and ram usage in the background ?

and :
keep on posting some screenshots people
 
Originally posted by maradong
hm. mine is always fully used 😀
but well..

which program allows you to put it the uptime, and ram usage in the background ?

and :
keep on posting some screenshots people
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aquamon will do that for you, thought it may annoy the hell out of you while it's at it.
 
Originally posted by maradong
why should it ?
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the last i checked, it forced you to keep its icon on the dock when running, a useless icon sitting there... it bothered me. maybe they changed it now. i wouldn't know, i have all the info i need in the menubar, which is better, IMO, as windows don't ever cover it.
 
i use Echidna to run it without an icon in the dock. i also use this for f@h and clutter.

sure it gets covered up by windows but its not something i want staring in my face all the time. thats why i use the transparency to make it belnd into the desktop picture a bit.
 
Originally posted by AmbitiousLemon
i use Echidna to run it without an icon in the dock. i also use this for f@h and clutter.

sure it gets covered up by windows but its not something i want staring in my face all the time. thats why i use the transparency to make it belnd into the desktop picture a bit.
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it's so much simpler, i think, to just edit the .plist inside the program. if only i could recall the entry. it's like NSWindowSetting set to 0 or something like that. too long since i did that...
 
Originally posted by Shadowfax
it's so much simpler, i think, to just edit the .plist inside the program. if only i could recall the entry. it's like NSWindowSetting set to 0 or something like that. too long since i did that...
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well echidna does more than just edit the plist. it also provides you with an easy fast way to launch, quit, and redo undo the headless app thing. a lot simpler than cracking open the plist every time or going into processviewer to quit the app.
 
Installed ram earlier today. Was 11 days.
 

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Installed ram earlier today. Was 11 days.
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😀 thanks for the picture . 😀

i use Echidna to run it without an icon in the dock. i also use this for f@h and clutter.

sure it gets covered up by windows but its not something i want staring in my face all the time. thats why i use the transparency to make it belnd into the desktop picture a bit.
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what is clutter ?
 
Originally posted by vniow
Clutter.
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thanks MsV. Thats clutter. Great lil app. you can keep albums on your desktop and tell itunes to play them simply by double clicking them. Also it auto searches amazon.com if you do not have the art already in itunes. it has a auto copy to itunes feature and a manual search feature.

I have about 6000 songs in itunes and i added art to all of them in just a couple hours using clutter. now i just need a bigger monitor so i can keep 6000 albums on my desktop.
 
Originally posted by AmbitiousLemon
I have about 6000 songs in itunes and i added art to all of them in just a couple hours using clutter. now i just need a bigger monitor so i can keep 6000 albums on my desktop.
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AL, can you post a desktop pic of what it looks like with the albums on the Dtop? is it just a bunch of folders or does it actually like make the icons into album covers or something?
 
well this is the last desktop i submitted to macsnaps.com but the link MsV gave you has a bunch of screenshots from various people.

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very tastefully arranged desktop, thanks. sorry about not checking the link. bit lazy (hey, i just finished my last day of high school) today 😀
 
Originally posted by plasticparadox
😀
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I've got your Windows box beat. See attached.

A friend even has his Windows .NET Server RC1 up for more than 216 days. Amazing Windows can do this.
 

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Originally posted by MacCoaster
I've got your Windows box beat. See attached.

A friend even has his Windows .NET Server RC1 up for more than 216 days. Amazing Windows can do this.
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-MacCoaster

Am I missing something? Your screencap says 29 days.
 
Originally posted by patrick0brien
-MacCoaster

Am I missing something? Your screencap says 29 days.
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Mine's approaching 50 days per the screenshot.

I was just stating about a friend of mine's Windows box running for over 216 days. It's not even final code, even though the final code has been out for a month.
 
Another great way to clear some RAM is to let some app sh*t itself (VLC does this) and attempt to write 2gigs to memory. After about 3 minutes or so of paging and a kill -9, you've got 90% of your ram free... course everything else's paged...

oh, and my uptime is 29 days. but thats only because 10.2.6... damn updates...
 
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how to clear the ram ? it keeps beeing used even after the programs are closed ( as every flavor of unix is doing... )
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I read through the thread, and there seems to be some confusion on this issue.

The ram isn't "used", in the sense that's it's actively malloc()'d by a running program (i.e., reserved and protected from use by other processes).

Just ignore the "free" and "used" values reported by top; they're misleading.

The "pagein" and "pageout" values don't refer to transfer to/from disk-based swapspace; they merely refer to the acquisition and release of memory pages, which may be from resident cached pages in physical, solid-state RAM, or it may be from disk-based swap.

It's normal for most modern instantiations of Unix (OS X is no exception) to run with very little "free" memory. This is because the pagers these days operate more effficiently by caching rather than completely freeing memory pages. Thus, when an app looks for "free" memory to report, it finds very little truly "free" memory. What is left may not be "free", but it's unused and ready to be allocated to a process if it requests it.

A more appropriate set of values to watch are those reported by vm_stat: watch the reactivated and pagein values. If the reactivated value stays constant and the pagein value starts rising steadily, you're hitting disk-based swap rather than cached memory pages, and you're short of RAM.

If you just watch the pagein or pageout values, you'll be fooled into thinking you're short on RAM when you're not.


It's only when a system is hitting the disk for memory allocation consistently -- paging memory out to and in from disk-based storage -- that you need to worry about freeing up memory by terminating processes, or increasing your RAM.


Otherwise, you're watching the normal functioning of a healthy pager in a modern Unix system.
 
Originally posted by Tha_Sylent1
What other commands are useful in the Terminal? (I'm a switcher) 😕
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hm,
1 top
2 ps -cx ( to check your processes )
3 ps -aucx ( all the processes )
3 *anything* | grep *somethin*
opens any command, executes it, searches for the string formulated after grep.
4 vi or vim for text editing,
5 ping
6 tranceroute
7 ssh -l user www.host.com
8 cd ( 😀 )
9 ls -l ( 😀 )
10 and so on 🙂 tell me what you want to do , and ill give you the commands. that s easier.
 
Originally posted by mcl
I read through the thread, and there seems to be some confusion on this issue.

The ram isn't "used", in the sense that's it's actively malloc()'d by a running program (i.e., reserved and protected from use by other processes).

Just ignore the "free" and "used" values reported by top; they're misleading.

The "pagein" and "pageout" values don't refer to transfer to/from disk-based swapspace; they merely refer to the acquisition and release of memory pages, which may be from resident cached pages in physical, solid-state RAM, or it may be from disk-based swap.

It's normal for most modern instantiations of Unix (OS X is no exception) to run with very little "free" memory. This is because the pagers these days operate more effficiently by caching rather than completely freeing memory pages. Thus, when an app looks for "free" memory to report, it finds very little truly "free" memory. What is left may not be "free", but it's unused and ready to be allocated to a process if it requests it.

A more appropriate set of values to watch are those reported by vm_stat: watch the reactivated and pagein values. If the reactivated value stays constant and the pagein value starts rising steadily, you're hitting disk-based swap rather than cached memory pages, and you're short of RAM.

If you just watch the pagein or pageout values, you'll be fooled into thinking you're short on RAM when you're not.


It's only when a system is hitting the disk for memory allocation consistently -- paging memory out to and in from disk-based storage -- that you need to worry about freeing up memory by terminating processes, or increasing your RAM.


Otherwise, you're watching the normal functioning of a healthy pager in a modern Unix system.
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true
cat /proc/mem gives much better information. espeacelly for the number of cached mb s and really used mb s . But in this discussion that doesn t really matter, as most of the users will never really understand the difference ( at least at my school only lets say 5 % did understand it while less than 1 % needed to know it. )
 
I find it interesting how people get competitive over how long their computers have been on.

I give my computer a fresh start as often as possible so it can do everything for me.

Except a few things you'll see:
 

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hm,
10 and so on 🙂 tell me what you want to do , and ill give you the commands. that s easier.
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Well nothing too specific I was just wondering what was possible or what you guys use the terminal for? Why would one need it?
 
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