RAM usage with Snow Leopard

[bbadalucco]

Ever since installing snow leopard my ram has been acting different. By that I mean, when I'm encoding a blu ray in Handbrake and open Activity Monitor it shows 4GB of RAM used (this is after encoding for over two hours). With leopard it would be around 15gb RAM used after a few hours?

Is this cause for concern or expected?

 

[Tesselator]

What do you mean 'is this cause for concern..."? Like you need to baby sit the OS or something? Are the apps working? Yes? Then no concern, right? I don't get it.

Or maybe this is some way to say: 'Hey look! SL uses less memory!' ??

 

[bbadalucco]

Look, it was a rather simple question. With Leopard it would be around 15gb by this time and now only 3gb...thats a ****ing huge difference. So i was wondering if maybe something was wrong with my ram (maybe something got messed up when I installed my new GTX 285) or maybe something didn't install correctly, etc.

 

[Lyshen]

I think a better question to ask is, has the encoding time changed from Leopard to Snow Leopard?

Is it taking abnormally long or still roughly the same?

 

[bbadalucco]

I think a better question to ask is, has the encoding time changed from Leopard to Snow Leopard?

Is it taking abnormally long or still roughly the same?

The videos I've been encoding lately are taking much longer (since installing SL). I was getting around 26fps with a blu ray encode and now its only 12 of 13...I'm trying to determine if thats due to particular video or OS.

 

[Tesselator]

Look, it was a rather simple question. With Leopard it would be around 15gb by this time and now only 3gb...thats a ****ing huge difference. So i was wondering if maybe something was wrong with my ram (maybe something got messed up when I installed my new GTX 285) or maybe something didn't install correctly, etc.

I guess there could be an issue with the code that counts and/or displays the amount of memory. If it were lower level than that like memory actually not being declared properly improperly seated DIMMs or etc., it would for sure be crash city. So either it's high level somewhat meaningless code malfunctioning or SL uses less memory under the environment you're working in.

 

[G.T.]

Ever since installing snow leopard my ram has been acting different. By that I mean, when I'm encoding a blu ray in Handbrake and open Activity Monitor it shows 4GB of RAM used (this is after encoding for over two hours). With leopard it would be around 15gb RAM used after a few hours?

Is this cause for concern or expected?

Do you have 15gb of RAM?

 

[bbadalucco]

Do you have 15gb of RAM?

18gb...usually after 4-5 hours its at 17.98...not anymore I guess.

 

[maghemi]

The videos I've been encoding lately are taking much longer (since installing SL). I was getting around 26fps with a blu ray encode and now its only 12 of 13...I'm trying to determine if thats due to particular video or OS.

Not specifically related to memory, But I have noticed that my handbrake encodes are slower with Snow Leopard than they were with Leopard. Not an enormous amount, but enough to notice.