Card on fire

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 11:51:48 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-07-12 11:06, Chris wrote:
>
>> I turn it off every day.
>
> Sleep can be convenient if you're going to use it later the 
> same day, for example.
>
>> If the OS is up too long (several days), it
>> starts to act weirdly and may crash at the most inconvenient 
>> time (is
>> there a convenient time for a crash?). All OSes are the same 
>> in this
>> respect, I think Windows is the worst, but Linux and OS X are 
>> not much
>> better in this respect. Must be some sort of memory pollution.
>
> I use OS X and I don't recognize that problem.

Maybe if it's up an running, it's not so bad. But if it goes to 
sleep as well, then things get messy. OS X is not the worst 
offender, but the safest thing is to reboot regularly to clean 
the RAM. I don't know what exactly causes crashes and funny 
behavior but I guess it's "polluted" RAM.