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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by song on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:08PM (#8468096)
Yes, I've never had OS X crash as often as Mavericks. And some of the crashes are completely repeatable.

For example, open a lot of windows (20 terminal windows, 5-6 projects in Sublime, a bunch of browser windows used to test apps), turn on mission control and it just crashes every single time. I haven't done more test to figure the exact number of windows until it crashes but I know that it does for my workflow.

Admittedly, I tend to have more windows opened than most people, but then again that's what I have 16GB for.

I've also noticed that while expose was always smooth, mission control just doesn't work for me. If it doesn't crash it's dog slow, especially if it switches from integrated GPU to dedicated GPU just when I open it.

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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by mentat on Thursday October 16, 2014 @07:05PM (#8468419)
There are and have been real GPU HW bugs that this could be triggering. I just had my main logic board replaced twice due to these with a similar trigger.
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by pfranz on Saturday October 18, 2014 @04:49AM (#8474963)
Have you tested your RAM? I had a similar situation where I had upgraded my memory and everything worked fine until I went to play Quake3. Also running Linux was miserable while Windows seemed to work ok. I finally figured out it was a bad stick of RAM and it save a lot of frustration.
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by epmatsw on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:40PM (#8468284)
If it's that reproducible, it would probably be good to file a bug report with Apple.
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by FraaJad on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:25PM (#8468720)
20 terminal windows? Is there any reason you are not using screen/tmux?
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by recursive on Thursday October 16, 2014 @09:32PM (#8468945)
Presumably because that doesn't cause the crash. It's a crash reproduction, not a workflow recommendation.
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by girvo on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:51PM (#8468820)
Eh, why bother when iTerm2 gives me the same splitting and tab features :)
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by zachrose on Thursday October 16, 2014 @11:51PM (#8469350)
I used to have the same question, but having a remote tmux session that persists forever has turned out to be awesome.
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by nknighthb on Friday October 17, 2014 @12:29AM (#8469422)
A remote session doesn't help when you're trying to run commands on your local system.
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by DonHopkins on Friday October 17, 2014 @09:05AM (#8470711)
I helps me, because I always fat-finger Command-W close tab instead of Alt-W copy region to selection in Emacs, and it closes my tab. I can get it back when I run Emacs under screen!
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by Moto7451 on Friday October 17, 2014 @12:21PM (#8471701)
iTerm2's Tmux integration (native tabs and panes backed by a tmux session) lets you have your cake and eat it too it's my standard dev flow for remote or local work. Just add -CC when firing up tmux within iTerm2.
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