Of late I've been noticing some periodic slowdowns on my white 2.16Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with the max 3GB memory.
Typically I have a number of 'background' apps (those running all the time) including Safari with 9 tabs, iTunes, iChat, Mail. I was stunned about two things when I checked Activity Monitor; first that Safari with 9 tabs open uses up masses of memory - over 1GB - and seems to have a memory leak of sewer proportions; second with so little running I'm almost out of free memory although typically about 800MB of inactive memory. VM size is 190GB. As an experiment I'm using Chrome instead of Safari and although this doesn't seem to have a memory leak it does swallow large amounts of memory with separate Google Chrome Renderer processes for each tab, although at around 600MB less than Safari. On top of the 'background' apps I'm also regularly using Pages, Rapidweaver, iPhoto, The Print Shop, ImageWell, Preview, TextEdit and Bento 4, but not all of these at the same time just various combos. My query, in the current Snow Leopard environment, is whether 3GB is inadequate these days - seemed fine pre-Snow Leopard - and if it is what do you think is the minimum memory for everyday usage, 4GB, 8GB? Any comments on this may help me make up my mind about the iMac. What do you think? Thanks -- Tony Crooks ---------------------------------- 53 Mendip Avenue • Eastbourne • BN23 8HP Mob: 07590508079 > Tel: 01323-460789 <mailto: [email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
