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High memory usage when using multiple backgrounds
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Inappropriate?I do quite a bit already to ensure memory stays down - if you use the same image more than once, Hyperspaces will only cache and keep one copy of that image (scaled to the size it's actually being used at). Currently I keep all images for all spaces in memory all the time - if you're using 16 spaces with 16 different backgrounds... "rape" isn't the word I'd use, but yeah, it's a lot of RAM.
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Inappropriate?Tony in my case I have 6 spaces, each with their own desktop and activity monitor is showing about 354 mb of memory used.
Does that sound right? It is using more then anything else running on my system currently. Even iTunes.1 Comment
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How big are the original images you're using? Keep in mind, most desktop pictures these days are compressed (PNG, JPEG) - Mac OS X must decompress these into memory to display them, so it's not a 1:1 mapping to file sizes.
It's probably correct, but I just don't have a great idea yet of how to solve it and keep things feeling fast. -
Inappropriate?Thanks for the response back. The images are pretty high quality. They are all averaging about 2 to 2.5 mb and are all PNG files.
I understand what you are saying. yeah I just wanted to check on this since I was a bit surprised. Real memory use stays at the 354 mb I mentioned before, virtual is at about 3.5 GB.
I'm sure it is a tough balancing act between performance and resources.1 Comment Add a comment
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Yes, it definitely is. Just to be clear - I'm not done finding ways to reduce memory usage. I'm just focused on stability a little more right now.
Thanks for being understanding!
