Nov
16
2006
Activity Monitor leaks
Posted by: Kevin Ballard in Mac OS X, Miscellaneous, tags: Activity Monitor, apple, leaks, memory, pmTool, RAMNote: Mac OS X 10.4.9 seems to fix the bug described here.
pmTool, the process run by Activity Monitor to actually collect stats, appears to leak memory. If I leave Activity Monitor running for a good period of time, when I check up on it pmTool is often using over 100MiB of Real Memory.
I just checked my laptop, pmTool was using over 100MiB of Real Memory. Right now on my desktop it’s using 41MiB of Real Memory, but I don’t remember how long it’s been running for. I also believe a good deal of memory is currently paged out.
After checking up on it, pmTool on my desktop has a Private Memory size of 91MiB.
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