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Re:Ask HN: Do you power off your laptop?) by gaoshan on Friday November 20, 2009 @03:08PM (#953280)
I have a Macbook and after about a week of continuous, heavy, use (I do web development on it so I may have Netbeans, Terminal, a billing app, Safari, Firefox, a Virtual Windows XP environment, vim, Mail, iTunes, iChat and an assortment of taskbar apps all running full time) I find it gets quite annoyingly slugish. A reboot refreshes things. I have only 2GB of RAM so that is probably part of the problem as I end up with more paging out I probably should.
Re:Ask HN: Do you power off your laptop?) by Slashed on Friday November 20, 2009 @03:19PM (#953304)
Yeah, the same story with me. Though I don't own a macbook and not using Netbeans(I use GEdit for most web development stuff and Eclipse for C-programming), have 3GB of RAM, I still reboot it about every four days.