On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 01/04/14 21:06, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> > I missed the entire PPC period; I went from a powerbook 180 to an 08 >>> >> macbook . . . >> > That is a socking great leap. Yes :) I switched to unix over LyX and writing equations as a grad student. Then 3 or 4 years ago, a clearance macbook jumped me at Frys. I figured I could always put freebsd on it if I couldn't get along. And I was about to do exactly that, until I used spotlight a couple of times. I thought it would be focus-follows-mouse that would be hardest to give up, but it turned out to be cut & paste in X . . . And I still used them as primarily unix boxen, but with great searching . . . and better power management/battery life than I could manage under FreeBSD or Linux. > The mini is two or three years old. > > > I am inclined to think that something is sneakily working in the background > and sucking up the RAM like nobody's business. > > Better have a look at all the active processes via the thing that I think > is called 'System Monitor' in the 'Utilities' folder > [nicked from Linux]. If there is something racheting up the RAM there you > can Force quit the thing and see if that makes any difference. > > We had to dump a prior account on this machine that got bog-slow with nothing I could find. ANy login or switch-user to that account killed things. I'll have it back in a couple of days and can try again . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode