OS X Mountain Lion Discussion

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Aaron Olive

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Same here, although i just checked and chrome is using 136MB.

Why would anyone need 30 tabs open? thats what the favourites bar is for.

Probably browsing multiple pron websites. :shiftyninja:
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.Neo

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I don?t know why consuming memory is often seen as a bad thing.

Some want lots and lots of memory in their computers to brag around, but don't really know enough about anything so start complaining when the OS actually uses it. They just want 14 of the 16 GB they have installed to sit idle 99% of the time.

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Some want lots and lots of memory in their computers to brag around, but don't really know enough about anything so start complaining when the OS actually uses it. They just want 14 of the 16 GB they have installed to sit idle 99% of the time.

Well let me brag that my MBA has 4GB and still chomps through FCPX stuff without a problem :)

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Miuku.

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I don?t know why consuming memory is often seen as a bad thing.

Efficiency. I look in the past and I see applications that were written with speed, size and minimum memory consumption in mind.

Now I see ls command that takes 5MB of memory to print out a directory listing. There's something that doesn't quite add up here.

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Efficiency. I look in the past and I see applications that were written with speed, size and minimum memory consumption in mind.

I'm hoping you do realize modern OSs like OS X will allow apps to take as much free memory they could use in order to speed up? If required the OS will automatically reassign the memory when you start launching other apps. There's nothing efficient about most of your memory sitting idle most of the time; I'd like to call that wasting perfectly good hardware away.

What many don't seem to understand is that an app using seemingly high amounts of memory doesn't mean per se that there's a memory leak or whatever.

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SuperKid

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Some want lots and lots of memory in their computers to brag around, but don't really know enough about anything so start complaining when the OS actually uses it. They just want 14 of the 16 GB they have installed to sit idle 99% of the time.

People are still stuck in the old days, remember the panic when Windows Vista came out and everyone started wondering what was going on with the memory because Vista had all those changes to how it like preloads applications in memory, or something similar.. whatever it was..

I'm hoping you do realize modern OSs like OS X will allow apps to take as much free memory they could use in order to speed up? If required the OS will automatically reassign the memory when you start launching other apps. There's nothing efficient about most of your memory sitting idle most of the time; I'd like to call that wasting perfectly good hardware away.

What many don't seem to understand is that an app using seemingly high amounts of memory doesn't mean per se that there's a memory leak.

Agreed :D

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Miuku.

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People are still stuck in the old days

If by "stuck in the old days" you're referring to people who wish to see more efficient and optimized code with less bloat, then yes.

And yes, I understand quite well how memory management nowadays works - I, however, cannot appreciate the fact that many programs nowadays are just slapped together with little interest in how many resources they're using to accomplish something very simple.

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BoredBozirini

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If by "stuck in the old days" you're referring to people who wish to see more efficient and optimized code with less bloat, then yes.

And yes, I understand quite well how memory management nowadays works - I, however, cannot appreciate the fact that many programs nowadays are just slapped together with little interest in how many resources they're using to accomplish something very simple.

Source?

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protocol7

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mine are still missing...is there something special i need to do to bring them back?

I didn't do anything special. You could try closing System Preferences, moving /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist to your desktop (so if it doesn't work you can move it back) and opening the Energy Saver prefs again. That should reset any of the power management settings it was storing.

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nyolc8

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Hehe the close notification effect is really cool! It literally goes up in smoke. :laugh:

What do you mean exactly? You mean when you close the notification banner? Because when I close a notification on the notifications bar, it just fades out.

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Elliott

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What do you mean exactly? You mean when you close the notification banner? Because when I close a notification on the notifications bar, it just fades out.

Sticky notifications that stay up on screen (like calendar alerts) *poof* when you close them.

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Am_I_Evil

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I didn't do anything special. You could try closing System Preferences, moving /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist to your desktop (so if it doesn't work you can move it back) and opening the Energy Saver prefs again. That should reset any of the power management settings it was storing.

still wrong for me

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nyolc8

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The missing Energy Saver options are back. Not sure if it's from this update or the previous one.

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I had a "Restart automatically if the computer freezes" option there too on Lion. Now I don't have that option (looks exactly the same as yours).

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