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#Safari tab suspender upgrade#

If you open a lot of tabs in the browser every time like me, you should consider suspending inactive tabs while you are not browsing the website or AFK, to limit the memory usage of browser. To enable it, just replace unload with load in the command. The service corresponding to Adobe CC services is located at /Library/LaunchAgents/, to prevent it from auto-launching from log-in, we will use launchctl again: type launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/ in terminal. Disable Adobe CC servicesĪlthough Adobe provide amazing products like Lightroom and Photoshop, its background services consume memory and CPU even when the Adobe-related program is not running. If you want to enable it again, just replace the command with sudo mdutil -a -i on. To prevent it from indexing all devices, type sudo mdutil -a -i off in terminal. If you never use Spotlight, you could disable it for saving CPU and memory usage. It indexes for all devices to provide effective search functionality. Mds stands for “metadata server”, which is a part of Spotlight in macOS. sudo mv /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/.bak.sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/.Here we use launchctl to unload two services, and rename the files. If you want to disable spindump furtherer (listed below), you should enable SIP later. Type csrutil enable instead to enable SIP. The steps are similar to disabling swap, and the only difference is the command. Note that this only is for macOS 10! If you are using Apple Silicon MacBook (M1) or macOS 11+, enabling SIP will also change back vm.compressor_mode to default.Īfter disabling swap, we should enable system integrity protection (SIP) again for security reason. Enable SIP (Recommended, for macOS 10.x only) Type csrutil status first to ensure that SIP is already disabled 1.2. From the  menu, press restart to restart MacBook.Type csrutil disable and press return, the screen should display a message that SIP is already disabled.

From the utilities menu, select “Terminal”.

You should see a macOS utilities window.

For M1 chip based MacBook, hold the power button until seeing “Loading startup options”.

Power-off MacBook first, hold Command (⌘) and R, and then start-up the MacBook.

To disable swap, first we have to turn SIP off. Disable SIPįrom macOS 10.11 to present, there is a built-in system integrity protection (SIP) for preventing malicious modification. Disable swapīe careful! Disable swap would cause kernel panic if there is not enough RAM for processes.

#Safari tab suspender upgrade#

To tackle this issue, I should either upgrade my MacBook ($) or try to limit the usage of memory by disabling swap and doing minor tweaks. For example, my MacBook with new SSD has powered on for 161 hours, and it has been written for ~663GB data(!). Unfortunately, if the SSD is used as system disk with limited RAM, it will be worn out rapidly by the swap mechanism. SMART information checked with smartmontools