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A few questions from a prospective switcher
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<blockquote data-quote="Hyperluminal" data-source="post: 92582"><p>Yup, thanks for the explanation. That's exactly what I was talking about. I just wanted to know if OS X is a little more proactive at throttling down other programs, if you try to do something else at the same time. The best example of why I asked though, is this: when I take my laptop out of suspend or hibernation, occassionally, if I have FireFox open, it'll use 100% of my CPU immediately. This actually causes my computer to sometimes take as much as 5 minutes to come out of suspend. Now, this is mainly a FireFox problem, but I just thought it was ridiculous that a true multitasking OS would allow itself to by stymied by a rogue process like this, under any circumstances. Now it's possible that the actual problem goes deeper than this, and its using 100% of my CPU isn't the only factor causing it to take so long coming out of suspend, but it doesn't at least outwardly appear to be anything other than FireFox using 100% of the CPU time (if I manage to terminate its process, the computer immediately recovers and finishes coming out of suspend normally)...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hyperluminal, post: 92582"] Yup, thanks for the explanation. That's exactly what I was talking about. I just wanted to know if OS X is a little more proactive at throttling down other programs, if you try to do something else at the same time. The best example of why I asked though, is this: when I take my laptop out of suspend or hibernation, occassionally, if I have FireFox open, it'll use 100% of my CPU immediately. This actually causes my computer to sometimes take as much as 5 minutes to come out of suspend. Now, this is mainly a FireFox problem, but I just thought it was ridiculous that a true multitasking OS would allow itself to by stymied by a rogue process like this, under any circumstances. Now it's possible that the actual problem goes deeper than this, and its using 100% of my CPU isn't the only factor causing it to take so long coming out of suspend, but it doesn't at least outwardly appear to be anything other than FireFox using 100% of the CPU time (if I manage to terminate its process, the computer immediately recovers and finishes coming out of suspend normally)... [/QUOTE]
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