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It's not necessarily intrusive just because it's running. I bet it's just swapped to disk and using ~0% of the CPU most of the time.
by spatulon 16y ago
It's not necessarily intrusive just because it's running. I bet it's just swapped to disk and using ~0% of the CPU most of the time.
- js2 16y agoThere is no configuration for the update engine. It periodically checks for updates, and in the background will download and install those updates. There may situations where I don't want it doing so: e.g., if I'm on a low-bandwidth link. I can maybe understand this if I've got a Google application running, but to do so w/o any Google applications running is unacceptable. To be clear, I think auto-updating software is a fine default. But every other Mac app I have (since they almost all use Sparkle) will only update itself when running, and further, give me a preference to disable the auto-updates as well as specify how often I want update checks to occur. It is un-Mac-like to silently update in the background and w/o providing the user any control.