For our mac user friends I just came across this neat little command: purge
It apparently frees up memory in caches. See this: http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/24/free-up-inactive-memory-in-mac-os-x-with-purge-command/ --joshua On Feb 7, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Hi Nick. Tried to send you a message on your e-mail. I don't have time to > go through your spam thingy. Sorry. > On Feb 7, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Eric Charles wrote: > >> 1) I use a PC, because I am cheap and lazy. >> >> 2) This sort of thing is a ubiquitous problem on PCs, and is sometimes a >> problem for Macs depending the exact operating system (but I've never seen >> it as bad on a Mac as it usually is on a PC). >> >> 3) I would be suspicious of a store-bought expert helping with this... and >> as has been suggested, an expert friend should be cheaper (though not >> necessarily free, as it is time consuming). >> >> 4) I know how to use the resource monitor, and often find that it is not >> telling me what I want to know. The long list of Processes often does not >> seem to account for what the Performance screen tells me is the CPU Usage >> and Physical Memory Usage. I've never really figured out why this >> discrepancy occurs... but I haven't tried hard to find out. It is certainly >> annoying. >> >> As suggested, a complete wipe will fix the problem. I have rarely done >> this... but usually am thinking about getting a new computer at about the >> time the problem is annoying enough that I would consider a wipe... and >> switching to a new computer is pretty much the same thing as wiping the old >> one. If you do not use too many programs, a wipe might be relatively easy. >> >> Also worth noting: Depending on your computing needs, $200 is a significant >> fraction of the cost of a new machine. >> >> Eric >> >> >> -------- >> Eric Charles >> Assistant Professor of Psychology >> Penn State, Altoona >> >> From: "Nicholas Thompson" <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> >> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam@redfish.com> >> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:57:32 PM >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor >> >> Thanks owen. I did lots of stuff LIKE that, but may not have recognized a >> helping hand when it was proffered. With your reassurance I will plunge >> back in. >> >> The response to this inquiry has led me wonder some wonderings about the >> folks on the list. Is it the case that: >> >> (1) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC >> (2) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who has had this >> sort of problem (=”resource leakage”?). >> (3) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who is too cheap to >> pay the 200 bucks to get it fixed by an expert. >> (4) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who is too cheap to >> pay the 200 bucks to get it fixed by an expert and who also too dumb to know >> how to use the resource monitor to fix it, myself. >> >> >> N >> From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore >> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:25 AM >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor >> >> Nick: did you google: >> how to use the windows resource monitor >> .. it turned up lots and lots of info. >> >> However, the classic solution to a clean machine is to literally start over: >> wipe the disk *after* making a complete copy of its contents to a cheap >> disk, and drag stuff back aboard as you need it. >> >> This is augmented by Dropbox: if you don't have it now, you may want to >> consider it as a backup of your working stuff, stuff that you can't replace >> from other sources and is data you actually created. It also makes it >> trivial to see/work on the files from any of several computers. >> >> Then the "lets start over" approach is much much easier. Clean system with >> one folder of your working repository. >> >> I'm always amazed just how zippy a new system is. >> >> I keep a log of all installs I do, you may start doing that .. it makes it >> easy to know what you may need to reinstall if you go the clean install >> route. And what may need removing 'cause you don't use it anymore. >> >> -- Owen >> >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Nicholas Thompson >> <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> Thanks for all your suggestions. Most I actually understood, for which I am >> enormously grateful. >> >> I have the habit of burying my most important question under a lot of verbal >> rubble, so I want to ask it again in case you missed it. Is there any guide >> to the Resource Monitor that is more forthcoming than the help files that >> come with it? Stuff like what the various charts and graphs and numbers are >> telling me. >> >> N >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
