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MacBook is laggy when switching apps
On my MacBook I experience lags when switching apps or when the debugger hits an exception/breakpoint and brings my IDE to the top.
The CPU usage is quite low, as you can see in the following image. ...
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Get Python to raise MemoryError instead of eating all my disk space
If I run a Python program with a memory leak, I would normally expect the program to eventually die with MemoryError. But instead, what happens is that all the virtual memory is used until my disk ...
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On Mac OS X how can I see how much memory is being used by what programs?
On Mac OS X how can I see how much memory is being used by what programs?
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Unpause application in Mac OS X
I tried parsing a gigantic XML file and I ended up running out of virtual memory. The OS put all my applications on pause and gave me a screen to shutdown applications to free more space. I killed the ...
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How to diagnose ballooning OS X kernel_task and wired memory usage?
I have a very strange issue, which I'm having a hard time diagnosing as to the root cause.
I have a Mac Pro (2008, 8-core 2.8 GHz, 8800GT) with 14 GB of RAM (recently upgraded because of this issue!)....
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How much swap is a given Mac application using?
Is there any way to tell whether a particular application running on Mac OSX (10.2+) has some of its memory swapped out (i.e., to one of the /private/var/vm/swapfile* files)? And how much?
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