[X4U] Re: Lack of sleep - What about widgets I wanna know

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Thu Sep 1 23:32:56 PDT 2005


>On 9/1/05 8:47 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
>>  As I'm typing this on 10.3.9 please don't hold me to these numbers,
>>  but I think it's something like 30MB per widget.
>
>Wow, if I could keep the widgets down to 30MB, I might stop quitting
>Dashboard more often (specifically, quitting the Dock using Activity
>Monitor). After a few hours, most of the widgets on my Tiger machine jump to
>80-100MB of Real Memory. Multiply that by 4-6 widgets, and that's half my
>RAM.

<Blink!>  Good Grief!!!  I wonder if that was part of my problem with 
10.4!  In the end I only had one or two widgets running.

			Zane


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