Daily Scrum - applehttps://blog.florijnconsultancy.nl/2014-10-25T12:02:00+02:00A personal blogDisabling nap app2014-10-25T12:02:00+02:002014-10-25T12:02:00+02:00Peter Florijntag:blog.florijnconsultancy.nl,2014-10-25:/articles/disabling-nap-app.html<p>Since Mavericks there is a feature called Nap app.</p>
<p>For some reason it can be better to prevent an application to take a nap.</p>
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<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
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<p>You can disable this for a specific application.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>defaults write com.apple.Terminal NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES
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<p>The Manual Solution:</p>
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<p>Mavericks comes with a dreaded feature — App Nap – that is designed to save battery live and be energy star compliant. Fine for some apps – but it doesn’t really work if you are using Studio as a web server. You can manually turn it off by:
– doing a ‘get info’ on Studio and
– clicking the ‘disable app nap’ feature.</p>
<p>you’ll get all your studio horses firing on all cylinders even in the background – which is what you want.
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<p><a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/274396/disable-app-nap-specific-apps-os-x-tips/">Disable nap app</a></p>
<!-- more -->How to fix slow startup osx mountain lion2013-08-21T13:31:00+02:002013-08-21T13:31:00+02:00Peter Florijntag:blog.florijnconsultancy.nl,2013-08-21:/articles/how-to-fix-slow-startup-osx-mountain-lion.html<p>I recently experienced very slow startup of my iMac and it seemed related to heavy Spotlight indexing.
I researched this item on Google but I could not find a real Root cause.</p>
<p>I made a call to Apple support and I got the following suggestions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Goto to Finder</li>
<li>Press Alt </li>
<li>Goto Library</li>
<li>Move folder Caches to the trash</li>
<li>Move folder LaunchAgents to the trash</li>
<li>Goto folder Preferences </li>
<li>Move com.apple.spotlight.plist to the desktop</li>
<li>restart</li>
</ol>
<p>This resulted in my iMac performing as usual.</p>
<p>So it worked for me.</p>
<p>Be careful and make a backup before trying this fix.</p>
<p>No guarantees!</p>
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