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- From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca)
- Subject: memory management
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.202411.16208@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Sender: rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu (Robert de Lucca)
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University - Homewood Academic Computing
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 20:24:11 GMT
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- This is perhaps a rather dumb question. I'm used to the Mac environment,
- where due to instability I was wont to quit and application when I
- wasn't going to use it for a few hours. Now I use a NSTurbo with
- about four times the memory and totally different os as regards
- memory management and everything else - but out of habit
- I still quit apps so that they won't be 'running" in the memory
- somewhere, although I have memory to spare and of course the disk
- swapping works much better than Mac vm ever worked.
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- Is there a good reason to leave unused apps open? Aside from speed
- in getting back to them? I know that if one opened and closed apps
- on the Mac too much it played some strange tricks. But leaving them open
- also brought them all crashing down sometimes.
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- Is there an app like the Mac info panel for the Next that lets us
- see memory usage? A unix shell command that's interpretable by
- non-unix users?
-
- Thanks
- rkd
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