Re:Firefox finally plugs the leak
by w1ntermute on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @11:33AM
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I don't know much about Macs, but does the OS use a lot of memory or something? Or does it have to do with the hardware?
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I'm not sure exactly why this happens, but it does use a lot more memory than you'd expect. Right now, I have 13 Chrome tabs open, Mail.app, a Terminal session, Colloquy, and TextWrangler running but with no documents, but it has 1.14 GB wired (as in, can't swap) and 1.66 GB active. That's a total of 2.80 GB memory in use.
But also, it takes a while to swap (upon which it beachballs all over the place), and it's not very intelligent about when to swap.
It's a 2.00 GHz quad-core machine, so I have plenty of CPU power. It's just that when I get working on more than one or two things at once, switching between them swaps everything to heck.