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A friend of mine was experiencing multiple-second launches for Terminal. When he looked, he saw that it was occupying about 1 GB of memory. Turns out the optio
by jff 12y ago
A friend of mine was experiencing multiple-second launches for Terminal. When he looked, he saw that it was occupying about 1 GB of memory.
Turns out the option to maintain ALL HISTORY EVER as scrollback was turned on. So he had the last year of compiler output and whatnot stored in a file somewhere, getting loaded into memory the first time he launched Terminal after a boot, and then eating a big chunk of his laptop's memory. Turning off the option was a major improvement.
- eridius 12y agoHoly crap. I leave Scrollback limited to "available memory", which I assume is what you're referring to, but I also compulsively hit ⌘K to clear my scrollback.