True Jeremy, that is why I added the 'kinda' But on my observation, I was watching the PrintJobMg constantly and nicely grow from 50 MB VSIZE to 495 MB with each page it was printing out, and only after it had finished printing everything, it released the memory on the spot. So in this case it was quite relevant to use top to view the memory usage, but it will undoubtedly be wrong to do in a lot of other cases where the dynamic memory allocation can cheat on you.
Cheers, Kim tirsdag marts 5 2002 kl. 11:53 skrev Jeremy Derr: >> I recreated the scenario to learn from it, and used top in the Terminal >> to >> view the Memory hog that the printing software(PrintJobMg) apparently is. >> Well and this may answer the question: you can use top in the terminal to >> view how much each app is using (kinda, at least ;-)) > > While this is true.... it's dynamic. An app can hog all available > memory one moment, and nicely go into the background and release most > of it's memory the next. It all depends on what the app is doing at > the very moment that you're looking at `top'. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
