Leopard Finder using a lot of RAM

[netnothing]

Currently my Mac Pro....clean install of Leopard has the Finder using 275 MB.

Other people seeing the increase of RAM usage with the Finder in Leopard?

-Kevin

 

[bmcgrath]

Mine is at 10mb real memory, and 815mb virtual.
So yours seems kinda high!
This is on a Macbook Pro with 2gb of ram too...

 

[netnothing]

Right now I'm at 287 MB Real and 1.46 GB Virtual mem.

Now granted, my machine has been up 17d 23h 51m, and I work on it everyday doing web development and some video encoding.

Was more that anything looking to see what other people have.

Thanks for replying.

-Kevin

 

[netnothing]

So I did the ol' Alt + Right Click the finder icon and chose Relaunch to relaunch the Finder.

I'm now back down to 12 MB Real Memory.

I'm guessing this got so high because over the course of the 17 days, there were times that I was doing alot in the Finder....like Coverflow on lots of images, etc.

Here's a question from a long time Windows user....what exactly does the Finder Relaunch do? Does it just restart the Finder itself, not impacting any running apps?

-Kevin

 

[neonblue2]

Here's a question from a long time Windows user....what exactly does the Finder Relaunch do? Does it just restart the Finder itself, not impacting any running apps?

The Finder is just an app like any other. Relaunching just kills the Finder and restarts it. Don't worry about it.

 

[klaxamazoo]

For some reason my virtual memory is always around 37GB's. I installed Leopard when it first came out. Every application is taking a minimum of 800MB's even little processes like Airport Base Station.

 

[netnothing]

After restarting the Finder on 12/6....the memory usage has crept up to 180MB of real memory. This is without doing any coverflow viewing in Finder.

I don't remember the Finder in Tiger taking up this much RAM....or maybe it did and the Activity Monitor wasn't showing it.

-Kevin

 

[hulugu]

Leopard's Memory Reporting...

...is weird.

Check this out:

 

[netnothing]

...is weird.

Check this out:

Wow...do you have the new Mac Pro that comes standard with 16 TB of RAM?

Yeah, I think Apple did something in the memory reporting in Leopard. Weird that they would mess something like that up.

-Kevin

 

[hulugu]

Wow...do you have the new Mac Pro that comes standard with 16 TB of RAM?

Yeah, I think Apple did something in the memory reporting in Leopard. Weird that they would mess something like that up.

-Kevin

No, I got the MacBook Pro. I need another one to hold the memory chips.

However, I think my MBP might be self-aware, so there's a benefit.