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RE: Mac Mini music server question

Posted by Tony Lauck (A) on June 20, 2014 at 19:01:49

In Reply to: RE: Mac Mini music server question posted by AbeCollins on June 20, 2014 at 17:05:29:

"No. I don't know where people get the idea that deleting unused applications will somehow result in better sound."

Some applications come with "helper" processes that run continuously in the background, even when the application is not being used. Depending on the operating system and how often these run these may or may not affect sound quality. Even something a simple as an entry in a process table for a process that has been blocked for over 24 hours may affect the performance of other processes if the operating system isn't designed to schedule processes and manage resources efficiently. Even something as innocent as allocating a block of memory that is never used may affect the performance of other applications which now find themselves resident in different portions of memory. This may have various performance implications, according to details of the particular hardware involved, e.g. cache memory and cache replacement algorithms, etc...

There is another benefit to deleting unused applications. It reduces mental clutter, making it easier to diagnose problems and tune a system for best sound. An uncluttered house is easier to keep clean...

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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