Bill
Trust me, you don't need to know any of this. I have just looked up
what "kill" does and Dan's fiddling has been quite superfluous for a
machine that you would own and on which you would instal applications
and other files yourself. I had not realised properly that Dan was
fiddling with someone else's computer ...
... I am learning my machines (iMac and MacBook) all the time and
"kill" was not something that I needed to know. I rarely use
Terminal and it is never to fiddle with the OS, only to manipulate
SQL users.
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
www.threeshoes.net & homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 4 Apr 2007, at 04:24, Bill Pearce wrote:
> I thought mac's were supposed to be easy for the novice to use.
>> I don't think you understood me.
>
> The following seems very complex:
>
>> "Force quite" works just fine. You NEVER want to use -9 as your first
>> attempt to kill something! That may well be causing all sorts of
>> other
>> problems! "kill -9" is an unconditional process termination, without
>> closing open files and network connections. If you "-9" a video
>> player, most likely the video file still has an open file descriptor
>> in the buffer pool, and may have problems when you try to re-open it,
>> or as a minimum will hold system resources that should be freed.
>> Do it
>> enough times, and things will slow to a crawl until you re-start.
>>
snip
> And I was actually considering switching when I need a new computer...
>
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