Thanks to everyone for the info. It looks like I need to run some test on it.
John Balgenorth On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:19 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > The guidelines I'd read were about 15% IIRC; I believe there used to be a > tech note on this, but I can no longer find it at apple.com. Most > third-party sites discussing this cite 15%. > > If OS X required us to never use half of our disk space that would be quite a > public controversy, since that's far beyond what any other file system > requires and would represent a tremendous waste of storage resources. > > If you have poor performance on a Mac that has more than 15% free, chances > are free space isn't the cause. > > There may be other issues with the drive (+1 for Disk Warrior), or either the > primary or a secondary drive has a power-scaling feature that lets the > platter rest when not in use, or corrupted b-tree elements, or any number of > other factors. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > John Balgenorth wrote: > >> 10% might work for you but it definitely does not >> work for me. I have a 1tb drive and 348 gb free >> space. Most operations run slower than normal. >> I deleted about 150gb of music to bring it up to >> 350gb because it ran too slow to use. Now it >> runs fast enough to use but I still have a lot of >> wasted time. I had a 350gb drive and had the >> same problems way before 35gb free space. >> >> John Balgenorth >> >> >> On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Robert Brenstein <rjb at robelko.com> wrote: >> >>> A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... >>> >>> I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital >>> parameters (just a happy user). >>> >>> RObert >>> >>> >>> On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: >>>> If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a >>>> you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free >>>> space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive >>>> with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free >>>> space on the drive. Anything below that and >>>> it normal operations like opening files will be >>>> slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and >>>> the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes >>>> you can speed things up a little by relaunching >>>> the Finder. That can be done using the Force >>>> Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be >>>> a temporary fix. >>>> >>>> John Balgenorth > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
