[CUBE] Defrag?

[Meirion Roscoe]

As a slight spin-off of this topic, my cube slows down too (it is on 
24/7) and the memory usage meter thing in the bar at the top shows 
1536mb of RAM which is normally split 168 used and the rest (maths in 
public should be avoided at all costs) as unused.  However over time 
that used bit creeps up to about 356 used.  Does anyone know why that 
is and is it detrimental to cube operation?


Sorry if this is a bit of a noddy question.

Regards

Rossi

On Wednesday, Jan 7, 2004, at 15:29 Europe/London, Riba wrote:

>> with a PC, I would probably defrag the hard drive. Do maccistes do 
>> such
>> things, and how. I found the disk utility, and all I could find to do 
>> was
>> verify the permissions. I have Norton for OSX, but have read lots of
>> warnings on this list to avoid it.
>> Briefly therefore, is there any sort of routine maintenance I need to 
>> do
>> such as defragging? And if so how? Many thanks.
>
> If you are running 10.3. it automatically defragments files smaller 
> than 20 MB iz size. Generally I haven't found fragmentation to be a 
> problem.
> You might want to try MacJanitor or Macaroni (you can find either on 
> www.versiontracker.com), they will run the maintenance scripts that 
> are supposed to be scheduled in the middle of the night, but probably 
> rarely do.
>
>
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