On Nov 20, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:
From what I can see... it seems like OS X (or BSD or whatever manages that) will use a lot of memory if it has a lot of memory available (I have 4gb)... and use less if it has less... I might be wrong about that but it seems to be working that way from what I can tell... (which is a bit different than what I'm used to on Windows using Task Manager)... It seems like linux behaves like that too...and it would also explain why Activity/Top etc.. aren't really "reliable" ways of determining an App's memory usage... (i.e. it might use more memory if you have more available)... am I right to think that?...
Yes. Lots of physical RAM usage is good, up to a point, because it's more expensive for an application to grow a zone than it is for it to recycle unused RAM in a a zone. You shouldn't ever worry about what you're worrying about, unless your program has nearly hit its VM limit (in which case it is OK to panic).
Nick Zitzmann <http://www.chronosnet.com/> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
