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On my 2015 MBP with 8GB & SSD, I am often stuck for 10-15 minutes unable to do anything while thrashing. And I am someone who has Activity Monitor handy. I do n
by tluyben2 10y ago
On my 2015 MBP with 8GB & SSD, I am often stuck for 10-15 minutes unable to do anything while thrashing. And I am someone who has Activity Monitor handy. I do not have this on my much older and weaker Ubuntu X220s doing the same type of development. Not sure why that is.
- Yaggo 10y agoIf it's 3rd party SSD, have you enabled TRIM? I had to do that for my old Mac Mini, made big difference. (2015 MBP of course has factory-installed SSD, but maybe this helps someone else.) http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/29/use-trimforce-trim-ssd-mac-os-x/ http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/29/use-trimforce-trim-ssd-mac-os...
- tluyben2 10y agoIt's all original Apple hardware.
- raarts 10y agoIt can be Spotlight reindexing, or Time Machine creating a backup into /Volumes/MobileBackups (done once per hour). Especially taxing if you have lots of files on your disk.
- nitrogen 10y agoIt's kind of annoying that these processes aren't niced and ioniced (or the macos equivalent). Especially when typing a password.
- Spooky23 10y agoLook for hung mds (spotlight indexer) threads. They can get hung up and fail Un-gracefully with some files. I had a client whose app generate PDFs that would cause this to happen.
- tluyben2 10y agoMemory (8GB) is just suddenly jumping to red, usually by some Safari tab (gmail etc) which suddenly jumps to 1GB. And that's it. No indexing or mds processes; just browser tabs which suddenly jump over a point and lock up everything because of memory use. It's like i'm back in the early '90s when I first touched a non Amiga and non SunOS system. And asked how people can work with that 'Windows/DOS stuff'. I am not sure why it misbehaves so much though...