On 2009-12-22, at 20:52, Zang wrote: > It doesn't really explain why it's listing 34.91GB though, …
From your vmmap output: MALLOC 0000000800000000-00000008ffe00000 [ 4.0G] rw-/ rw- SM=PRV auto_zone_0x10001d000 MALLOC (freed) 00000008ffe00000-0000000bff800000 [ 12.0G] rw-/ rw- SM=NUL auto_zone_0x10001d000 MALLOC (freed) 0000000bff800000-0000000cff600000 [ 4.0G] rw-/ rw- SM=PRV auto_zone_0x10001d000 MALLOC (freed?) 0000000cff600000-0000001000000000 [ 12.0G] rw-/ rw- SM=NUL All but 4 GiB of the 32+ GiB is freed. > … nor why it and AppTrap are the *only* apps to even so much as > reserve even a tenth that much address space. They're the only apps on your system using the garbage collector. Most apps aren't GC yet. > The Cocoa Dev forum post linked to in the FAQ references "up to > 8GB", not "up to 34.91GB". That's the common case. Yours is rare. > Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong with Growl Menu > even so much as daring to *look* at that much space? No. But GrowlMenu does not look at that much space; this is entirely behind-the-scenes bookkeeping done by the Cocoa garbage collector. Thus, there's nothing wrong with GrowlMenu's memory consumption. The “Virtual Memory” number is useless and misleading to non- programmers. It does not indicate GrowlMenu's memory consumption. The “Real Memory” number does. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
