10.4.5 RAM issues? (finder)

[rye9]

Has anyone else had Finder using more RAM (10MB more for me) than 10.4.4 or other previous versions?

 

[mkrishnan]

You actually noticed a RAM consumption difference of 10 MB? On a modern computer? Wow! 😱

I haven't noticed...and both of my Macs are on 10.4.5 now, so I can't test for you. Sorry. 🙁

But right at this moment, here is what I see in 10.4.5:

iMac G5 / 2.0 GHz / 1.5GB RAM: Finder has three threads and 32.5MB real memory and 252.5MB VM.

iBook G4 / 800 MHz / 640MB RAM: Four threads, 14MB real memory, 194.5MB VM.

So there's a lot of variability... are you sure you're seeing a change due to 10.4.5 and not variability?

 

[eXan]

I'm on my iMac (see sig) right now, and according to Activity Monitor, Finder uses 20.35 MB RAM and 280 MB VirtualRAM, has 4 threads.

Oh, im running 10.4.5

 

[ChrisA]

Has anyone else had Finder using more RAM (10MB more for me) than 10.4.4 or other previous versions?

The finder uses a variable amount of virtual RAM depending on what it is doing and the system alocates physical RAM depending on some fairly complex criteria.

 

[rye9]

I'm on my iMac (see sig) right now, and according to Activity Monitor, Finder uses 20.35 MB RAM and 280 MB VirtualRAM, has 4 threads.

Oh, im running 10.4.5

Well that's what I mean. Finder on 10.4.4 was using less than 25MB RAM, now it is using 35MB since the update.

 

[iPhil]

mine Of finder in X.4.5 = 5 threads/7.07 MB real memory/ 140MB V. Memory 😱 😱

thats on 2.5 days of up-time too

 

[mkrishnan]

Well that's what I mean. Finder on 10.4.4 was using less than 25MB RAM, now it is using 35MB since the update.

I don't think it has anything to do with the update. I think you're just seeing normal fluctuations, that you never watched closely enough for long enough in 10.4.4 to notice. That's my theory. 😉

 

[rye9]

I don't think it has anything to do with the update. I think you're just seeing normal fluctuations, that you never watched closely enough for long enough in 10.4.4 to notice. That's my theory. 😉

That's very possible... just seemed unlikely to me because every time I went into activity monitor on both versions of Mac OS X, it would be 25 MB and 35 MB, respectively. But it doesnt matter, its not causing me any problems. 😀