For Superior Stability and Responsiveness: Use Spaces for Every App as Much as Possible

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Hi. It's great to share this experiement. It's Hard to Crash Mountain Lion OS X with Spaces or even bring out the spinning wheel.
Any OS (it's good to have Windows, OS X and Linux all at the same time, best of all worlds) should probably be stable if each app was on a separate desktop environment or separate account (with the main one logged in, in the background). The permission were repaired (it crashed the last time I tried this with just one Spaces) using Disk Utility in Mountain Lion's Recovery partition.
Testing the overall stability and responsiveness: more than 12 app including Cinebench 12, Winclone, 2 3D Games from App Store (not Crysis or Rage but helps stress things along with Cinebench), all default Mountain Lion apps except Time Machine launched in one windows , Winclone cloning BootCamp a Win8 (upgraded from Win7) for hours, playing two 3D games (shooter Uberstrike and Marble World, fulscreen windowed) from App Store, Carbon Copy Cloner, watching a fullscreen movie on VLC, Activity monitor and iStats to see how the temperatures, CPU, GPU and memory are doing), quicktime playing a catholic chant in a loop- anything to bring the Mac, the whole system to a crawl, spinning wheel of death or to a crash which it didn't. Launching and relaunching app on their on Spaces was responsive even with all the system taxed at almost 100%.
There was around 12 Spaces running at the same time on the iMac i7 with 8GB. It's not the most convenient way to switch between apps (having everying in one Spaces and clicking on it still the best, followed by swithing via Dock), the gestures and mission control significantly made it easier to have so many Spaces and not that much of a burden to manage when you get used to it. It's much better than Windows 8 implementation for a less cluttered environment. The command-tab is good to combine with Mission Control gestures for switching from fullscreen apps.
.All that while running Cinebench 11.5 which taxes the CPU at almost and GPU 100% but surprisingly the fps shooter and Marble Worlds 3D games didn't crawl as I expected.Having an ambient temperature of about 30 Celsius, with full load the CPU temp was at 66, GPU was at 88, fans where surprisingly at CPU and optical disk fans were only at 900+ rpm with hardisk at 1000+ rpm which is the only 'side effect' to having taxing the system like this (I still have Applecare and Time Machine backup for a worry free test) is it confuses the SMC because without load all fans were at 1000+ rpm (I brough it back to normal with a SMC reset). All these for hours and there's still 1GB memory to use out of the 8GB (with 100GB hardisk space).
When I closed all 11 Spaces and brought all the apps to just one desktop, it wasn't as stable nor as responsive like I have experienced before. Marble World when you switch to it, would have artifacts, the game was almost a slide show. If you have lots of clips to copy past from on the Desktop and you have to hide all to see the finder and then Show All, Carbon Cloner would not show up right away and would have that spinning wheel. I quitted all the apps to prevent a crash and to bring temperatures down.
At first the Mountain Lion was almost a regret with some crashes but with Spaces, Misson Control and gestures for Mission Control, It's bring out the value and it just incredibly stable and responsive (Linux have their multiple desktop environment but Apple's implementation makes you see everything like a map almost bringing the convenience of just one desktop with all the apps placed strategically so you can click and switch to it faster). It's a great way to do a lot of things when you need to without worrying about slowing things down to a crawl.
Thank you for your time.
God bless.

Answer 1

Hi. It's great to share this experiement. It's Hard to Crash Mountain Lion OS X with Spaces or even bring out the spinning wheel.
Any OS (it's good to have Windows, OS X and Linux all at the same time, best of all worlds) should probably be stable if each app was on a separate desktop environment or separate account (with the main one logged in, in the background). The permission were repaired (it crashed the last time I tried this with just one Spaces) using Disk Utility in Mountain Lion's Recovery partition.
Testing the overall stability and responsiveness: more than 12 app including Cinebench 12, Winclone, 2 3D Games from App Store (not Crysis or Rage but helps stress things along with Cinebench), all default Mountain Lion apps except Time Machine launched in one windows , Winclone cloning BootCamp a Win8 (upgraded from Win7) for hours, playing two 3D games (shooter Uberstrike and Marble World, fulscreen windowed) from App Store, Carbon Copy Cloner, watching a fullscreen movie on VLC, Activity monitor and iStats to see how the temperatures, CPU, GPU and memory are doing), quicktime playing a catholic chant in a loop- anything to bring the Mac, the whole system to a crawl, spinning wheel of death or to a crash which it didn't. Launching and relaunching app on their on Spaces was responsive even with all the system taxed at almost 100%.
There was around 12 Spaces running at the same time on the iMac i7 with 8GB. It's not the most convenient way to switch between apps (having everying in one Spaces and clicking on it still the best, followed by swithing via Dock), the gestures and mission control significantly made it easier to have so many Spaces and not that much of a burden to manage when you get used to it. It's much better than Windows 8 implementation for a less cluttered environment. The command-tab is good to combine with Mission Control gestures for switching from fullscreen apps.
.All that while running Cinebench 11.5 which taxes the CPU at almost and GPU 100% but surprisingly the fps shooter and Marble Worlds 3D games didn't crawl as I expected.Having an ambient temperature of about 30 Celsius, with full load the CPU temp was at 66, GPU was at 88, fans where surprisingly at CPU and optical disk fans were only at 900+ rpm with hardisk at 1000+ rpm which is the only 'side effect' to having taxing the system like this (I still have Applecare and Time Machine backup for a worry free test) is it confuses the SMC because without load all fans were at 1000+ rpm (I brough it back to normal with a SMC reset). All these for hours and there's still 1GB memory to use out of the 8GB (with 100GB hardisk space).
When I closed all 11 Spaces and brought all the apps to just one desktop, it wasn't as stable nor as responsive like I have experienced before. Marble World when you switch to it, would have artifacts, the game was almost a slide show. If you have lots of clips to copy past from on the Desktop and you have to hide all to see the finder and then Show All, Carbon Cloner would not show up right away and would have that spinning wheel. I quitted all the apps to prevent a crash and to bring temperatures down.
At first the Mountain Lion was almost a regret with some crashes but with Spaces, Misson Control and gestures for Mission Control, It's bring out the value and it just incredibly stable and responsive (Linux have their multiple desktop environment but Apple's implementation makes you see everything like a map almost bringing the convenience of just one desktop with all the apps placed strategically so you can click and switch to it faster). It's a great way to do a lot of things when you need to without worrying about slowing things down to a crawl.
Thank you for your time.
God bless.