Posts Tagged “RAM”

Nov 16 2006

Activity Monitor leaks

Posted by: Kevin Ballard in Mac OS X, Miscellaneous, tags: , , , , ,

Note: 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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