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nirvana on April 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Something is deeply broken in OS X memory manageme...

Changing directory is instant for me. (no SSD here, all spinning rust.) Tab completion is instant too. Run Time Machine every hour, never made a change to the spotlight config.

spooneybarger on April 24, 2012 [–]

anything that hits the disk heavily, including time machine, kills my snow leopard machine. lack of ui responsiveness, beachballs et al.

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