[X4U] Re:What about widgets I wanna know

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Sun Sep 4 17:20:20 PDT 2005


On 09/04/05, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2005, at 10:25 PM, x4u-
>>
>> I am running 8 dashboard widgets, with real memory allocations of
>> between 2.88 and 13.05 MB. This is nowhere near the memory
>> requirements of Photoshop or the other widgets mentioned. I just
>> launched the Calendar widget and it is using 8.5 MB. I am running
>> 10.4.2, Powerbook 1.5Ghz, 1gb RAM.
>
> I also get ~8.5MB when I open the Calendar Widget. Now leave Activity
> Monitor open in the background and watch what happens when you click
> on the Widget, to make it smaller/larger, a few times. I'm beginning
> to think that there is a memory leak in the Dashboard code.

Just did that OMM and the memory allocation doesn't change, even though the
six I have running are showing ~25 MB usage for each.


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