https://heartbt.co.il/tags/mac/ Recent content in Mac on YBG's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:01:24 +0200 https://heartbt.co.il/tech/had-we-started/ Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:01:24 +0200 https://heartbt.co.il/tech/had-we-started/ Where would networking be today if… Let’s go back to the beginning of Ethernet (to keep it simple). Imagine that many developers began developing their own networking schemes between close proximity machines, but that all the code above the driver line was user space loadable, performance wasn’t an issue and for the time being, no need to communicate over long distances. Assume Open Source and that developers had community coding tools like Github at their disposal. https://heartbt.co.il/tech/mac-hard-knocks/ Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:27:35 +0300 https://heartbt.co.il/tech/mac-hard-knocks/ Emergency paddle when up the creek Scary System disk kept running out of space. Found that /var/vm, where the swap files appear was filling up with loads of swap files. Culprit was Quick Look whose memory usage was spiraling out of control, gobbling up all available system memory and obviously, forcing swapping in its wake. /var/folders had grown to over 2.4 GB. Apparently resulted from some corrupt cache file, but who cares?