Saturday, 23 April 2011

Weird Memory Usage Issue


yesterday doing several things on i5 imac 12gb memory. using elgato capture old vhs home videos, listening music on itunes, surfing safari, , had few other apps active, minimized. heck of it, decided @ memory usage in activity monitor. surprise, had small amount of free memory , huge amount of active memory (not unusually amount of inactive. out of 12gb couple hundred meg "free". did sort on "real memory" column , surprise, app eating memory "textedit". textedit running (minimized) , had simple document open in it. when quit textedit, free memory improved. not sure why textedit eating memory? i've never seen before.
 



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