On 06 Mar 2012, at 13:28 , Michael Winter wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2012, at 9:35 AM, LuKreme wrote: > >> >> My mds process is using 500MB of RAM (Real Mem) which seems a bit excessive >> to me. > > Isn't that a good thing? As long as the memory isn't needed for anything > else, it makes sense to keep as much information as possible in memory in > case its needed. Otherwise the memory is just sitting there doing nothing.
It is concerning to me that the mds process *ever* needs that much memory. I mean, I know what mds does, and it shouldn't need a whole lot of RAM to do it, I don't think. On the mini, it uses about 130MB of Real memory, which seems more reasonable. Its shared memory is only 26MB, so why's it need over 500MB (it's grown)? That's twice what the Finder or Safari use, more than Safari+Safari Web content or iTunes, and just barely less than the mysterious kernel_task. Also, its VM keeps growing (up to 3.77GB right now), though I don't care about that. -- Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
