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really man? maybe you are not using your macbook long enough or you are simply browsing the internet with it? I reboot my macbook pro (running leopard) as oft

really man? maybe you are not using your macbook long enough or you are simply browsing the internet with it? I reboot my macbook pro (running leopard) as often as I reboot my windows 7 PC which is not much. Except I use the Win7 machine 90% of the time and for much more "intensive" stuff.

blago 16y ago
As a fellow mac user: If you are rebooting your Mac for reasons other then system upgrade, something is wrong with your machine. I say this as someone who compiles from source and runs server software on my mac almost every day. mogodb, apache, nodejs, mysql, tomcat is just the tip of the iceberg in the server department.
- technomancy 16y ago
  > If you are rebooting your Mac for reasons other then system upgrade, something is wrong with your machine Indeed; that is the point of the article. =)
  - larsberg 16y ago
    Or you have made the grave, grave mistake of installing Adobe products on your machine.
- Derbasti 16y ago
  Except for those who rely on Boot Camp for gaming. These people have to reboot whenever they want to switch from work mode to game mode.
- JoeAltmaier 16y ago
  Maybe app users experience this. I use a Mac Mini for development/test as an alternate platform. I have to reboot the dang thing every day or two. The development tools hang and screw up. The network drops and needs to be unplugged/plugged back in or rebooted. The debugger totally fails to breakpoint and only a reboot will fix it. I alternate between banging my head on the wall, and white-hot fury at the thing. Fortunately I only occasionally have to verify the code still runs there, and don't have to live in that environment.
jarin 16y ago
I use it probably 14+ hours a day, and it's variously running MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Photoshop, 600 million Chrome tabs, Xcode and Starcraft 2 whenever possible :) I did experience memory leaks with pretty much every Bittorrent client, but I haven't torrented any uh, Linux distros in forever.
- reneherse 16y ago
  Just asking, but how do you keep so many Chrome tabs open without things getting sluggish? My MBP (2008 pre-unibody/Leopard) seems to get bogged down with just a couple score of Chrome tabs. Granted, I don't know much about what's going on under the hood (I'm a designer, not a programmer) but Activity Monitor shows that each tab uses a gig of virtual memory...
  - foljs 16y ago
    > Just asking, but how do you keep so many Chrome tabs open without things getting sluggish? My MBP (2008 pre-unibody/Leopard) seems to get bogged down with just a couple score of Chrome tabs. Avoid Flash. Install something like ClickToFlash, FlashBlock etc. I have tens of tabs open no problem. (Then again, I'm on a Quat iMac)
  - tjarratt 16y ago
    Just a guess, I think there might be some APIs available in SnowLeopard that allow Chrome to write its tabbed content to files and read it in asynchronously more easily than they could have in Leopard. Sometimes when I switch to a tab that has been idle for over a hour, I notice it takes chrome some time to render it again. Also, most developers tend to buy machines with the maximum RAM they can. I've got 4GB in my macbook pro and the 20 chrome tabs can't be taking up more than 500MB all together. Comparatively, Safari seems to take up a lot more memory than Chrome.
    - seabee 16y ago
      > Sometimes when I switch to a tab that has been idle for over a hour, I notice it takes chrome some time to render it again. That sounds like paging in effect, which is decades old. Maybe you just notice it more now!

blago 16y ago

As a fellow mac user: If you are rebooting your Mac for reasons other then system upgrade, something is wrong with your machine. I say this as someone who compiles from source and runs server software on my mac almost every day. mogodb, apache, nodejs, mysql, tomcat is just the tip of the iceberg in the server department.

technomancy 16y ago
> If you are rebooting your Mac for reasons other then system upgrade, something is wrong with your machine Indeed; that is the point of the article. =)
- larsberg 16y ago
  Or you have made the grave, grave mistake of installing Adobe products on your machine.
Derbasti 16y ago
Except for those who rely on Boot Camp for gaming. These people have to reboot whenever they want to switch from work mode to game mode.
JoeAltmaier 16y ago
Maybe app users experience this. I use a Mac Mini for development/test as an alternate platform. I have to reboot the dang thing every day or two. The development tools hang and screw up. The network drops and needs to be unplugged/plugged back in or rebooted. The debugger totally fails to breakpoint and only a reboot will fix it. I alternate between banging my head on the wall, and white-hot fury at the thing. Fortunately I only occasionally have to verify the code still runs there, and don't have to live in that environment.

jarin 16y ago

I use it probably 14+ hours a day, and it's variously running MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Photoshop, 600 million Chrome tabs, Xcode and Starcraft 2 whenever possible :) I did experience memory leaks with pretty much every Bittorrent client, but I haven't torrented any uh, Linux distros in forever.

reneherse 16y ago
Just asking, but how do you keep so many Chrome tabs open without things getting sluggish? My MBP (2008 pre-unibody/Leopard) seems to get bogged down with just a couple score of Chrome tabs. Granted, I don't know much about what's going on under the hood (I'm a designer, not a programmer) but Activity Monitor shows that each tab uses a gig of virtual memory...
- foljs 16y ago
  > Just asking, but how do you keep so many Chrome tabs open without things getting sluggish? My MBP (2008 pre-unibody/Leopard) seems to get bogged down with just a couple score of Chrome tabs. Avoid Flash. Install something like ClickToFlash, FlashBlock etc. I have tens of tabs open no problem. (Then again, I'm on a Quat iMac)
- tjarratt 16y ago
  Just a guess, I think there might be some APIs available in SnowLeopard that allow Chrome to write its tabbed content to files and read it in asynchronously more easily than they could have in Leopard. Sometimes when I switch to a tab that has been idle for over a hour, I notice it takes chrome some time to render it again. Also, most developers tend to buy machines with the maximum RAM they can. I've got 4GB in my macbook pro and the 20 chrome tabs can't be taking up more than 500MB all together. Comparatively, Safari seems to take up a lot more memory than Chrome.
  - seabee 16y ago
    > Sometimes when I switch to a tab that has been idle for over a hour, I notice it takes chrome some time to render it again. That sounds like paging in effect, which is decades old. Maybe you just notice it more now!