是時候換SSD了嗎?還是先提升基本ram? - MAC

By Mason
at 2013-04-08T18:07
at 2013-04-08T18:07
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※ 引述《forsomelse (Forsome)》之銘言:
: 我是2011 MBP late,基本款,i5,4Gram,
: 系統版本號是10.8.3;
: 平常主要是以文書作業為主,
: word, ppt, excel, pages, keynote等都常使用,skype跟iphoto也常用,
: 偶爾會需要剪輯影片(imovie,Final cut pro曾試用過但很頓...)以及VM跟小修圖;
: 用chrome有時會開到接近10個分頁這樣,
: 硬碟空間還有接近300G。
: 平常使用其實覺得蠻容易跑彩球的,很會頓,
(用英文鍵盤上BBS,中打很慢.中英文夾雜請見諒)
前文諸位大德已經有給意見故不再贅述.
先講結論是我認為在目前僅有 4G RAM 的情況之下, 我會選擇優先加 RAM.
以下是個人愚見:
Wiki 上對 spinning pinwheel 的說明是這樣:
...
The spinning pinwheel, also known as the "rainbow wheel," is a pointer in
Apple's Mac OS X that indicates an application is not responding to system
events.[1]
...
Each application has an event queue that receives events from the operating
system (for example key presses and mouse button clicks). If an application
takes longer than 2 seconds[8] to process the events in its event queue
(regardless of the exact cause) the operating system displays the wait cursor
whenever the cursor hovers over that application's windows.
...
也就是說當某一程式花太多時間在其 event queue 時就會出現 spinning pinwheel.
要寫程式讓它出現也很簡單. 一個 infinite loop 就可以了.
但是要減少 spinning pinwheel 出現就困難得多. 因為 event 被 blocked 有很多種原
因. 記憶體不足導致過度的 swapping 有可能是原因之一. swapping 的過程會讀寫
page file, 因此硬碟速度也會影響 event queue 處理的速度.
不過, 從作業系統的角度來看, 記憶體讀寫的速度是一定比儲存媒介快很多的. 就算是跟
SSD 比還是一樣. 這也是為什麼在 OSX 中有 active, inactive, wired 等的設計. 其實
他們都是 cache 設計中的一種, 只是比較複雜.
wired 跟 active 很像, 都是正在被使用中的 memory blocks. 差別是一個可以被寫入硬
碟作 swapping, 另一種不行. inactive 則是 free memory. 若是之前曾經使用過這個
memory block 需要再用一次的話會被 reassign 給該程式. 速度會比快一點.
所以回到您的問題. 一般來說, 記憶體是多多益善. 那沒有夠不夠的問題, 而是愈多愈好.
memory 愈大, cache 的機會就愈大. 因此增加記憶體應該會直接影響您的使用經驗.
改用 SSD 其實也可以. 但應該會對重開機或者載入程式或資料的速度上比較有改善. 對於
改善 spinning pinwheel 的效果也會有, 但是會是比較間接的改善.
當然最好是兩個都換. 但若是我必需要在 memory 跟 ssd 之間作一選擇, 考慮到目前成本
以及之後帶來的效益, 我會選擇 upgrade memory.
以上
--
: 我是2011 MBP late,基本款,i5,4Gram,
: 系統版本號是10.8.3;
: 平常主要是以文書作業為主,
: word, ppt, excel, pages, keynote等都常使用,skype跟iphoto也常用,
: 偶爾會需要剪輯影片(imovie,Final cut pro曾試用過但很頓...)以及VM跟小修圖;
: 用chrome有時會開到接近10個分頁這樣,
: 硬碟空間還有接近300G。
: 平常使用其實覺得蠻容易跑彩球的,很會頓,
(用英文鍵盤上BBS,中打很慢.中英文夾雜請見諒)
前文諸位大德已經有給意見故不再贅述.
先講結論是我認為在目前僅有 4G RAM 的情況之下, 我會選擇優先加 RAM.
以下是個人愚見:
Wiki 上對 spinning pinwheel 的說明是這樣:
...
The spinning pinwheel, also known as the "rainbow wheel," is a pointer in
Apple's Mac OS X that indicates an application is not responding to system
events.[1]
...
Each application has an event queue that receives events from the operating
system (for example key presses and mouse button clicks). If an application
takes longer than 2 seconds[8] to process the events in its event queue
(regardless of the exact cause) the operating system displays the wait cursor
whenever the cursor hovers over that application's windows.
...
也就是說當某一程式花太多時間在其 event queue 時就會出現 spinning pinwheel.
要寫程式讓它出現也很簡單. 一個 infinite loop 就可以了.
但是要減少 spinning pinwheel 出現就困難得多. 因為 event 被 blocked 有很多種原
因. 記憶體不足導致過度的 swapping 有可能是原因之一. swapping 的過程會讀寫
page file, 因此硬碟速度也會影響 event queue 處理的速度.
不過, 從作業系統的角度來看, 記憶體讀寫的速度是一定比儲存媒介快很多的. 就算是跟
SSD 比還是一樣. 這也是為什麼在 OSX 中有 active, inactive, wired 等的設計. 其實
他們都是 cache 設計中的一種, 只是比較複雜.
wired 跟 active 很像, 都是正在被使用中的 memory blocks. 差別是一個可以被寫入硬
碟作 swapping, 另一種不行. inactive 則是 free memory. 若是之前曾經使用過這個
memory block 需要再用一次的話會被 reassign 給該程式. 速度會比快一點.
所以回到您的問題. 一般來說, 記憶體是多多益善. 那沒有夠不夠的問題, 而是愈多愈好.
memory 愈大, cache 的機會就愈大. 因此增加記憶體應該會直接影響您的使用經驗.
改用 SSD 其實也可以. 但應該會對重開機或者載入程式或資料的速度上比較有改善. 對於
改善 spinning pinwheel 的效果也會有, 但是會是比較間接的改善.
當然最好是兩個都換. 但若是我必需要在 memory 跟 ssd 之間作一選擇, 考慮到目前成本
以及之後帶來的效益, 我會選擇 upgrade memory.
以上
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