On Apr 30, 2009, at 5:39 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
When a leaky app, like for example Firefox chews up memory, it can slow the whole system down. It might be worthwhile to use activity monitor and quit/force quit any app(s) which seem to be using excessive real/virtual memory and see if that helps.
Good idea, though I do not use FireFox, so my list of candidate apps would be Apple Mail, Interarchy, Safari, and TM, that is about all I have running when doing dev.