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10.5: A cautionary tale on overloaded Desktops in 10.5
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10.5: A cautionary tale on overloaded Desktops in 10.5
whilst everything that has been said about desktop icons being a draw on resources is true, it must not be forgotten that as soon as one installs either tiger or leopard, the system grinds to a halt indexing itself for spotlight. Why apple implemented it in this fashion rather than wait for a period of inactivity is beyond me - if nothing else it's bad marketing to have someone install an OS, only to find one can't use it, or it's MUCH slower than the cranky OS one was using an hour ago. And who does a clean install only to immediately start looking for files? ok, you over in the corner there might, but the rest of us are still playing with our shiny 'new computer' (reality distortion field in full effect)
10.5: A cautionary tale on overloaded Desktops in 10.5
just as an experiment, I created over 1500 files on the desktop - yes, I'm *that* bored on a gloomy saturday - and after the initial few mins at 100% cpu, on my 1.5ghz G4 powerbook with 1 gig of ram, with just the finder and safari open, I have 11% (avg) cpu load. The window server initially was using 350 megs of ram, but that has now dropped to 80. The finder is as spritely as it was before in leopard, which I must say isn't as good as tiger, but that's a topic for another thread. |
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