How can you tell how much memory is being used by the GPU when both CPU and GPU use Unified Memory? Does it matter anyway?
Category Archive: Macs
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 140. Here are my solutions to them. 1: This […]
Can you get Time Machine to back up faster by turning I/O throttling off? If so, it this something to do only for large backups, or can it be set as the default? Does it also affect other background processes?
Current CPU % given in Activity Monitor can be misleading and has limited value for M1 models. Here’s how to improve it.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: This multilingual stone […]
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch: cloud storage is a valuable adjunct, not a substitute for local backups.
Updates replace an expiring developer ID installer certificate. All are Universal binaries, fully signed and notarized.
In Activity Monitor, % CPU isn’t on a scale of 0-100. In M1 Macs, it also makes no distinction between E and P cores, nor does it allow for their changing frequency.
If your SSD suddenly loses power, what is there to prevent it from incurring serious errors as a result? Practical solutions.
Each additional Safari window increases WindowServer’s memory use by 1.7 MB on an Intel Mac, but 50 MB on an M1 Mac – thirty times more.
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