If you’re a developer and use Terminal.app, don’t set “unlimited” on the buffer size. After a day of using it heavily to review logs and whatnot your computer will be really slow. It’s Terminal.app keeping in RAM what you did yesterday. Stupid and Obvious, but still figured I’d write it down.
Quick and stupid: Don’t set unlimited on the buffer size of Terminal
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Great point. Certainly don’t do that, and then do “cat /dev/zero”. 😉
Cmd-K will clear the buffer, it’s a command I use all the time to help me keep track of the most recent logfile (or whatever) I’m looking at.
I prefer the unlimited size, it has actually saved me a couple of times
I’ve programmed myself to regularly cmd-k, though
Ah, you mean… discipline, right? I’ve heard that’s a nice feature if you have it 😉