[X4U] Re: Do users use resources?

[Dennis R. Cohen]

On 11/14/07 at 8:27 AM, Mark Des Cotes <lists at marksmandesign.ca>
transmitted the following electronic message:
>
>Hi all,
>
>Running 10.4.10 if it makes a difference. We've had a home Mac  
>running X since Jaguar first came out. The computers have always been  
>set up with a single User account that everyone used. Last week I  
>decided to create accounts for my wife and each of my two kids. That  
>way they can stop messing up "My" computer. I use said Mac for my  
>home based business. Being a Graphic Designer I use a lot of resource  
>heavy software. Does having the other three users still logged on use  
>up some of the resources available to me? If so, is it enough for me  
>to be concerned about? Should I instruct them to log off when they  
>are done using the computer?
>
>Thanks
>

It depends upon whether they left tasks like downloads from the Internet
or video-encoding operations going. If so, those tasks continue to run
and will use resources. If no ongoing tasks are running, the only
resource they're consuming is some disk space for the swap files as
their processes get swapped out for your current tasks.

-- 
Dennis R. Cohen