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10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
You could also use DashOnOff. It is a pref pane that turns Dashboard on and off with a click. I use this (to leave Dashboard off) and am now using Konfabulator for my widget "needs". It is free, now that it has been purchased by Yahoo, doesn't require me to hit a button to view my widgets, and it is better than Dashboard in other ways.
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
Konfabulator is an interesting thing to bring up in the thread of turning off Dashboard. Apple's Dashboard only runs when you have it open; that's why it's designed as it is, and why you can't run widgets outside of the dashboard layer without changing how Dashboard works. Konfabulator not only takes up FAR MORE RAM, but RUNS ALL THE TIME.
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
Your point is accurate regarding Konfabulator, which is well-known to use a lot of system resources, such as RAM and CPU.
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
Of course Dashboard uses CPU and RAM, but only if you have widgets loaded and are using it.
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
I hate when people say that "this in not classic, OS X can open as many apps as you want". You probably haven't stressed OS X VM to see that it is far from efficient. And please, let's stop with the fallacy that unused processes are swapped to HD. Every single opened process needs RAM, its usage can decrease if not active, but SOME memory is always needed. Just open Activity Monitor and click in "real memory", if you can find a process that uses 0 kb of RAM let me know. There is no magic even in the most in modern memory management system ( not OS X's case )
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
I wasn't making a technical argument about how VM works, but rather noting that in practical use, apps that are not active are not consuming RAM in the manner of Classic Mac OS.
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
This is not correct. Please add 3-5 widgets to your dashboard, and lauch
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
60MB? What are you looking at? Real memory during normal use of Dashboard widgets for me is on average 3 or 4 MB per widget. That's barely anything. And the virtual memory listing doesn't matter.
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
aranor,
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
Wooly thinking keeps my head warm, thank you very much.
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
Turning off Spotlight may make a difference, because Spotlight's indexing works every time a file is saved, and churns through things in the background, but turning off Dashboard is unnecessary tech voodoo and simply woolly thinking.I did some rudimentary tests to check on the effect of Spotlight. I wrote some scripts that created thousands of files and deleted them, too. Spotlight appears to be well designed to wait until I/O activity drops below some threshold before updating its indices. You can see Spotlight start working only after the I/O activity finishes. Thus, in my experiments, Spotlight thankfully had no effect on appreciable I/O performance. |
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