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I like your philosophy, Dalchina. While I am not a tech, I've been around since the beginning of home computing, and I've always tried to keep my data on a separate partition, if not drive. Programs too where possible. Remember Lotus Smartsuite? The whole suite of programs could be installed on D:. It drove me nuts that each new version of Windows forced more and more User info onto C. I wonder, if IBM had emerged as King of the home computing world, instead of MS, would things have been different? Remember OS/2? Too bad that didn't catch on....
The Performance tab of TM is fun to look at (and BTW, my "(Compressed) Memory" figure is 0 every time I look at it), but it doesn't give a breakdown of what is happening under System. (I am also still not clear if System is actually the same as what was, for a short time, System and Compressed Memory.) The Processes tab gives some breakdown, but not enough. While not really wanting to become a Tech, I guess I need to get better tools to look at what is happening.
Since I find I don't have a "System and Compressed Memory" process, I need to understand better what is going on with the "System" process. Mine runs at what appears as "full disk use" a lot, particularly right after resuming from sleep--making it difficult to start working when you want the computer to be available. --And even after disabling Superfetch and doing some of the other things different folks often suggest. Since all this discussion here has been between you and me on an old thread, my sense of this is that I should start a new thread if I want help looking into the System process, as that might get more input from more people. Do you agree?
Michael