Sunday: Massive Memory Use. |
1 August 2004 |
RAM: 512MB, Virtual Memory: 6.22GB!
Applications on MacOSX use an astoundingly large amount of memory.
Who'd have thought that a Terminal would occupy 4.02MB of RAM and 202.18MB
of virtual memory? Take a look at the Activity Monitor screenshot below (it's large):
Safari, a webbrowser, allocated a whopping 209MB, Opera an even larger 284, Mozilla!
Mozilla allocated an unbelievable THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE MEGABYTES! (379MB) Why?!?!? It's a webbrowser!
It goes on: iChat, a chat client, allocated a huge 228MB (plus the iChat agent with 166MB). Cyberduck FTP program 411MB, Mail 217MB.
iTunes 236MB, Dock 201MB, Stickies 203MB, SubethaEdit, a text editor for duck's s sake, 209MB.
"Apple Modem On Hold", I'm guessing it's an application that can put the modem on hold when another call comes in,
allocated an exact 200MB. I'm bored now, but there are more.
What on earth do these applications need all that memory for? So much! I've never had such an amount of virtual memory used under Windows,
I didn't even think it would be possible for a bunch of basic applications require so much memory.
And I do consider webbrowsers, a terminal and a music player basic applications.
Do MacOSX applications all pre-allocate such large amounts of memory, so far it
looks like every application allocates such large amounts of memory so it must be a MacOSX "thing".
200MB for an address book applications, it has to be a joke or a mistake.
Desktop icon text shadows.
What is wrong with the MacOSX icon text shadow algorithm? Other people
can get it right, why not Apple? A little embarrasing, I think!
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