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ldmbouge

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Original poster
Jan 4, 2009
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I'm seeing some very surprising memory usage on SL. This is on an MBP with 4Gig of RAM.

Code:
1381	 Terminal	ldm	0.0	5	1.01 GB	Intel (64 bit)	5:22.07	1.02 GB	
164	 Finder         ldm	0.0	8	269.5 MB	Intel (64 bit)	29:53.66	197.9 MB	
0	 kernel_task	root	1.4	69	198.3 MB	Intel	1:08:10.30	46.9 MB	
4494	 Safari     	ldm	0.9	15	196.7 MB	Intel (64 bit)	57:01.16	333.9 MB	
77	 WindowServer	_ws	0.3	5	107.6 MB	Intel (64 bit)	25:28.61	51.9 MB


This is the "top" and the first number is "Real Memory" (i.e., RAM) while the second is virtual memory. I find it a little disturbing that the terminal managed to climb to > 1Gig of RAM! (Never mind almost 300M for the finder with a single window open).


Has anybody seen this? I just grabbed iTerm to see whether I could help reduce the footprint a bit.
 
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