Dratted luck: MacBook Pro

My new machine just got vertical backlight stripes. Now to try to get them to go away….

Update: sleeping then waking fixes the problem. I deliberately didn't sleep by closing the lid, which rules out cable pinch.

Posted at 2008-03-08 15:12:03 by Richard • Link to Dratted luck: MacB…
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Failing

My sidebar says I'm “trying to buy less stuff”. I'd say I failed: in the past week or so I've taken delivery of a new MacBook Pro, a 30" display, and a new switch, UPS, and drives for the NAS that's on its way.

Oops.

Posted at 2008-03-08 13:44:33 by Richard • Link to Failing
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Memory usage in Leopard

Under Tiger, Mail.app's RSIZE usually hovered around the 430MB mark. Check out top's output on Leopard:

  PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE
  329 Mail         0.1% 35:26.51  12   319   1622 1131M    47M  1181M  1607M 
  306 OmniWeb      0.0% 16:37.10  25   329   2743  398M   220M   625M  1065M

Wow! A quick restart of Mail drops this number to just 62MB. I suspect there is a resource leak somewhere… check out RPRVT: over a gig allocated to the Mail process alone.

Posted at 2008-03-08 13:42:09 by Richard • Link to Memory usage in Le…
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