LiveCode and SQLite performace

[JB]

Thanks to everyone for the info.  It looks like
I need to run some test on it.

John Balgenorth



On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:19 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> The guidelines I'd read were about 15% IIRC;  I believe there used to be a tech note on this, but I can no longer find it at apple.com.  Most third-party sites discussing this cite 15%.
> 
> If OS X required us to never use half of our disk space that would be quite a public controversy, since that's far beyond what any other file system requires and would represent a tremendous waste of storage resources.
> 
> If you have poor performance on a Mac that has more than 15% free, chances are free space isn't the cause.
> 
> There may be other issues with the drive (+1 for Disk Warrior), or either the primary or a secondary drive has a power-scaling feature that lets the platter rest when not in use, or corrupted b-tree elements, or any number of other factors.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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> 
> John Balgenorth wrote:
> 
>> 10% might work for you but it definitely does not
>> work for me.  I have a 1tb drive and 348 gb free
>> space.  Most operations run slower than normal.
>> I deleted about 150gb of music to bring it up to
>> 350gb because it ran too slow to use.  Now it
>> runs fast enough to use but I still have a lot of
>> wasted time.  I had a 350gb drive and had the
>> same problems way before 35gb free space.
>> 
>> John Balgenorth
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Robert Brenstein <rjb at robelko.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free...
>>> 
>>> I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital parameters (just a happy user).
>>> 
>>> RObert
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote:
>>>> If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a
>>>> you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free
>>>> space to run efficiently.  So if you have a drive
>>>> with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free
>>>> space on the drive.  Anything below that and
>>>> it normal operations like opening files will be
>>>> slower.  I have used more space than 1/2 and
>>>> the more I use the slower it gets.  Sometimes
>>>> you can speed things up a little by relaunching
>>>> the Finder.  That can be done using the Force
>>>> Quit option.  If it speeds things up it will only be
>>>> a temporary fix.
>>>> 
>>>> John Balgenorth
> 
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