Another thing to consider is how many files you are working with and creating in a day. I am easily in the hundreds and that could make things worse than for someone who is just working with the same few files.
John Balgenorth On Jul 28, 2015, at 12:59 PM, JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > Okay I did not remember your statement > correctly. But I have noticed after 50% > things start slowing down a little. And if > I get to 20% they have slowed down a lot. > I do agree at 10% you are risking damage > but I would say from the poor performance > I have seen at 20% it suggest the drive is > rising damage. 30% and above seems to > work a lot better for me. Even 10% seems > to be a lot of wasted space since on a 1TB > drive that is around 100gb. That is how it > works for me and it is not limited to 1 drive. > As for the memory I usually only have one > app open at a time so that is not a problem. > > John Balgenorth > > > On Jul 28, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: > >> You do not remember correctly. What I said (if I am remembering correctly) >> is that you need at least the size of your memory free and then some. This >> is because your OS will page out your memory into virtual memory, which is >> just a disk cache. But other apps also need room to grow for other things. I >> have always maintained that 10% is a red line you should never cross without >> risking damage to the OS or other apps data. >> >> Bob S >> >> >> On Jul 24, 2015, at 08:19 , Richard Gaskin >> <ambassa...@fourthworld.com<mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: >> >> If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a >> you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free >> space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive >> with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free >> space on the drive. Anything below that and >> it normal operations like opening files will be >> slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and >> the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes >> you can speed things up a little by relaunching >> the Finder. That can be done using the Force >> Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be >> a temporary fix. >> >> John Balgenorth >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
