Re: Many Apps = System Slowdown?
- From: Gregory Weston <uce@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:30:07 -0400
In article <vikr-0CE601.14185013042007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Vik Rubenfeld <vikr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I often have about 30 apps running (plus widgets and various OS-X apps
like mds and WindowServer). When first launched, the system runs
smoothly. But I notice that a lot of apps use more and more virtual
memory, the longer they run. It's not unusual for Activity Monitor to
show apps like Firefox, Photoshop Bridge, NetNewswire, and others to
eventually using 1 and even 2 gigabytes of virtual memory. When that
happens to a few apps, switching between apps can slow my system down to
a crawl. Quitting a few of the apps and relaunching them fixes it -
system response gets snappy again.
My question is... would adding ram fix this? (I currently have 2.25 gigs
of ram, running on a dual 1.8ghz G5 with OS-X 10.4.9).
Thanks in advance to all for any info.
Adding RAM would postpone it, but depending on how many apps you run
that exhibit that kind of memory consumption you would eventually end up
starting to page out. It might be worthwhile to contact the developers
of the apps that seem to keep allocating memory and ask them if it's
really expected to behave that way.
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