After further evaluation, I am not convinced that there is any difference
between 1.4b18 and 1.4rc1 in terms of actual memory usage. I suspect that
due to performance issues introduced in 1.4b20 (which are fixed in 1.4rc2,
pushed last night), folks checked Activity Monitor ("why is this going so
slow?!") and noticed the memory usage, assuming it to be a new or causitive
issue.
David and I discussed the preferences subsystem as one cause of high memory
usage. Fixing this without causing performance degradation is outside the
scope of 1.4.0... and such a problem is not a regression.
-Evan
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:31 PM, David Smith <catfish....@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, memory usage should never go up between builds unless there's a major
> feature added that would account for it (64 bit Adium is expected to use
> more for example). Suggested debugging steps:
>
> run leaks Adium > ~/Desktop/AdiumLeaks.txt
> run heap -guessNonObjects -sumObjectFields Adium > ~/Desktop/AdiumHeap.txt
>
> Send both the files that generates on the desktop to one of us for
> analysis.
>
> David
>
> On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Robert Vehse wrote:
>
> > Hey folks,
> > is it to be expected that Adium uses a lot more memory in b20 and rc1?
> >
> > This has been reported: https://twitter.com/ziru/status/27751294113.
> > I responded: https://twitter.com/Adium/status/27771115566.
> > Further exchange:
> > - https://twitter.com/ziru/status/27966099959
> > - https://twitter.com/ziru/status/28755152270
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Robbie
> >
>
>
>
