[Ti] Weird Screen Behavior...

[David Remahl]

> According to David Remahl:
>
>> Heh...That's funny. Those two applications are the only ones that 
>> crash regularly on my machine :-). Well, there are a few others that 
>> do it too, but very seldom. Word crashes as soon as I touch it (which 
>> is why I don't :) and Photoshop crashes every once in a while.
>>
>> In conclusion, running Mac OS X with less than 1 GB of hard disk 
>> space is a BadThing. Having less than 400MB free (which Photoshop 
>> could certainly cause with its internal disk swap) - is a 
>> ReallyBadThing, and is known to cause the system to forget 
>> preferences. With even less space available, you risk the whole 
>> system, in case it runs out of VM (an ExtremelyBadThing).
>>
>> / Rgds, David Remahl
>
> Now that you mention it, I have heard of the 80 MB 'chunk' of Swap 
> space, as a block, that gets incremented. I've ben trying to figure 
> out what invisible thing is taking up 1.25 GB of space on my internal 
> drive.

Most likely, the 1.25GB is eaten up by a mathematics exercise:

Hard disk manufacturers like to define 1 GB as 1000 * 1000 * 1000 = 1 
000 000 000 bytes.
Operating system manufacturers like to define 1 GB as  1024 * 1024 * 
1024 = 1 072 693 248 bytes.

Therefore, if a hard drive is speced at 30 GB, that means 30 000 000 
000 bytes. Using 1024 per K, that gives us:

30 000 000 000 / 1 072 693 248 = 27.966 GB

Which could be an explanation to where your 1.25 GB's went (the 750 MB 
discrepancy I can't explain :).

<snip>

> Basically, what I was saying is that Photoshop and OSX like lots of 
> clean, non-fragmented breathing room, and as much RAM as possible. And 
> the whole system, apps, utilities,  and OS, included, benefits greatly 
> from an accurate, non-fragmented Directory, whether you run graphic 
> converter, or P-Shop, makes no difference. A Directory in disarray, as 
> well as a drive in a fragmented state, only bring everything down, 
> inexorably, over time. Period

Yes. :-)

/ David