On 9 Apr 2014, at 9:58 AM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:

> Frankly, I don’t even know what that memory-usage graph in Xcode’s debugger 
> pane is showing. I’ve found that “memory usage” is a slippery concept in a 
> modern OS, and unless you know exactly what you’re looking at, it’s easy to 
> draw the wrong conclusions. (Obvious example: people looking at VMSIZE and 
> thinking their app is using a gigabyte of RAM.)

My memory (h’m) is that it’s RPRIV. Not a great measure, but it’s supposed to 
be lightweight, and anything more accurate is a _lot_ heavier. It’s a canary 
for runaways, not a precise gauge of ebb-and-flow.

        — F

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Gone to press this week.


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