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My MacBook Pro has been having some problems – performance problems, crashes, failures to come back from sleep, etc. Often it showed the black screen while heating up. Some signs point to Firefox. Right now I have 3.6.13 running under Mac OS X 10.6.6. Since I like Firefox more than other browsers, I wanted to find a solution.
It looks like I have found one solution. This is a Firefox add-on – RAMBack. It adds a menu item “Clear Caches” under “Tools” and allows Firefox users to release some memory allocated by Firefox for some performance improvement purposes. In the Activity Monitor I have seen the reduction in “Real Memory” from 250M to 215M. Not much, but that is 14%.
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Ironically, at some point allocating more memory to improve performance (by caching) slows down applications. This is not only a Firefox problem. This is a more general architectural problem. When designing an application, one should make sure that improving performance of one aspect does not negatively impacts other aspects on which the former depends on.
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Another problem with Firefox on Mac is that it seems to be inefficient in handling many open tabs. Firefox on Windows can handle easily up to 150 tabs open. This is an unreachable limit for Firefox on Mac with comparable hardware configuration. Firefox on Mac starts choking with just 20 tabs.
ALICE software on macOS is supported on a best effort basis. Even though we systematically check macOS builds there is no guarantee that software builds or runs correctly. Support requests might have low priority. We were able to successfully build on:
Mac Os Catalina
- Catalina (10.15)
- Big Sur (11.0)
With very short update cycles of macOS, refrain from updating until we list the latest version of macOS as verified.
In November 2020, Apple started a transition to theier own ARM based processor archtecture called 'Apple Silicon' on the Mac. These differ significantly from the current Macs based on Intel X86 processors. In the forseeable future, these ARM based Macs will not be able to run ALICE code as software packages we depend on are not yet available for this platform. However with a big Mac community at ALICE we expect support to come once this is possible.
Get Xcode
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Xcode bundles the necessary tools to build software in the apple ecosystem including compilers, build systems and version control
- Download it from the App Store
- Open once installed. It will ask to install additional components - approve the action.
- Open a terminal (
Applicaions>Utilities>Terminal
) and install the command line tools using: - approve the license conditions by
Get Homebrew
Homebrew is a command-line package manager for macOS used to install software packages similar to yum
on CentOS or apt
on Ubuntu. There are several different package managers for macOS, but Homebrew is by far the most poppular , and the only one we support.
- Install Homebrew using the instructions on their webpage.
- Once installed detect any problems regarding Homebrew and your system using
Install the required packages
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Note that Homebrew does not run as root. Do not prepend sudo
to any of the following commands.
- Install the prerequisites via:Various users have reported that this might terminate with an error. The solution oddly enough seems to be to execute the above command multiple times until brew does not complain anymore.
If you have just upgraded your Xcode or macOS, you should run
brew reinstall
instead, in order to force the reinstallation of already installed packages. You also might want to runbrew cleanup
at the end to free up some space.Edit or create
~/.zprofile
and add- Close Terminal and reopen it to apply changes.
Python
In case you are using Python from Anaconda or Python from Homebrewthen you have pip
already. Check it by typing:
If not present install with
(Optinal) Exclude your work directory from Spotlight
The mac search engine (Spotlight) will be indexing the build directory which can have severe effects on your system performance. To avoid that, you can exclude your working directory (we are assuming ~/alice
- create if not yet existing).Go to (Apple) menu>System preferences>Spotlight
. In the Privacy
tab, hit the +
button. Now select the ~/alice
directory and confirm.
You are now ready for installing aliBuild and start building ALICEsoftware