--- You wrote: Mail and the background greyed out (at this time, I am saying to my self "what the..."), then the multi-lingual "You need to restart your computer". It took literally several restarts to be able to actually use it again (I was able to use it on about the fourth restart while holding "shift") and it has been working fine since. Is this a common occurrence with OS X, or should I restart it once every couple of days or so to start fresh? --- end of quote --- I think there are probably a lot of reasons why X might crash. I've been thinking lately that for some of us it might have to do with the fact that X uses a LOT of virtual memory so there's a good deal of disk read and write. If something confuses the read/write or a disk temporarily tops out, maybe that can cause a lockup. One way to reduce the use of virtual memory (you can't turn it off in X) is to add ram. Things run better in X with more ram anyway, so they say, and it might reduce whatever bottleneck might be causing the problem. I'd also guess that bad ram might cause lockups.
Apparently the Unix core needs periodic maintenance, which happens automatically if you don't shut your machine down at all. There are a bunch of free utilities out there that force the running of the various scripts, delete caches etc. I like Cocktail, since in the "Pilot" section you can script it to do everything automatically, including fix permissions and restart It wouldn't hurt to do this on a periodic basis. I don't know much about all this, so this is all speculation. But, as I said, it wouldn't hurt. Rich -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
