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

[Michael Winter]

>> 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.

But the real question is, do they still take that much real memory  
when memory is running tight? I don't care if a widget takes 500 MB  
of RAM if nothing else needs it. If its taking that much when I need  
it for other apps, then its a problem.

-Mike