madmac.us— When I used to have 1 gigabyte of RAM, I often noticed that I had little memory left. This troubled me greatly, so I set off to find the biggest memory hogs.
Nov 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
@kethraal:Those are the results that I got, and I think you are right, on the factors that caused them. But for some reason Safari's memory barely goes down when I close tabs. I believe this is a bug.
All the apps listed may take up a good deal of memory, but OSX can handle the load a whole lot better than WinXP. I have 1.5GB in my imac and rarely go below 1GB free. I don't run many ilife apps, but I'll have itunes, firefox, visualhub (or handbrake) and sometimes a video editor on the pc dumping output to the imac, all running at the same time while still maintaining a good amount of free memory & still responsive. WinXP can't get close to that.Before the MS fanboi base tries to lay into me - yes, the imac has more memory and cpu power than my pc (2ghz core duo + 1.5gb ram vs. 3ghz P4 HT + 1gb ram). The imac was bought to help the pc, not beat it into obsolescence.
"When I used to have 1 gigabyte of RAM, I often noticed that I had little memory left. "Why is this a big deal? Free RAM is wasted RAM. My Mac often got very little free RAM. Why? The OS tries to keep as much possible in RAM to prevent page faults. The only time when RAM usage is an issue is when there is a heap of disk trashing. Hes probably looking at stacks of tabs of porno and warez sites to get Safari to chew up 400MB.
I think most people think a page fault means the computer had some error, when in reality they should learn about how secondary and primary storage works in a modern OS. If only such a forum existed where people could post accurate ideas and information for all to read...Ah screw it, just read any old blog and trust it as truth, who needs an editorial process.
LOL, and I'll bet you think Windows Vista is better, huh? I can't even play videos in Vista without it stuttering due to the insane amount of RAM that the OS takes up. Haven't had that problem in OS X...
Closed AccountNov 23, 2006
@kethraal:Those are the results that I got, and I think you are right, on the factors that caused them. But for some reason Safari's memory barely goes down when I close tabs. I believe this is a bug.
therealstyroNov 23, 2006
All the apps listed may take up a good deal of memory, but OSX can handle the load a whole lot better than WinXP. I have 1.5GB in my imac and rarely go below 1GB free. I don't run many ilife apps, but I'll have itunes, firefox, visualhub (or handbrake) and sometimes a video editor on the pc dumping output to the imac, all running at the same time while still maintaining a good amount of free memory & still responsive. WinXP can't get close to that.Before the MS fanboi base tries to lay into me - yes, the imac has more memory and cpu power than my pc (2ghz core duo + 1.5gb ram vs. 3ghz P4 HT + 1gb ram). The imac was bought to help the pc, not beat it into obsolescence.
Closed AccountNov 23, 2006
Inaccurate - Should be 'Top 10 Memory Hogs on MY Mac'
captainmordecaiNov 23, 2006
"When I used to have 1 gigabyte of RAM, I often noticed that I had little memory left. "Why is this a big deal? Free RAM is wasted RAM. My Mac often got very little free RAM. Why? The OS tries to keep as much possible in RAM to prevent page faults. The only time when RAM usage is an issue is when there is a heap of disk trashing. Hes probably looking at stacks of tabs of porno and warez sites to get Safari to chew up 400MB.
nick0909Nov 23, 2006
I think most people think a page fault means the computer had some error, when in reality they should learn about how secondary and primary storage works in a modern OS. If only such a forum existed where people could post accurate ideas and information for all to read...Ah screw it, just read any old blog and trust it as truth, who needs an editorial process.
mscmanNov 23, 2006
LOL, and I'll bet you think Windows Vista is better, huh? I can't even play videos in Vista without it stuttering due to the insane amount of RAM that the OS takes up. Haven't had that problem in OS X...
Closed AccountNov 23, 2006
marked innacurate
zapper69Nov 23, 2006
What a numnutz. Shock horror programs use memory when they are running. Thats like saying driving your car uses fuel. duh! Bad post from a n00b