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GrowlMenu Memory usage: 8GB ?! #75

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.  Boot Mac with growl installed 
2.  run top (eg. top -o VSIZE)
3.  Note outrageous virtual memory usage of GrowlMenu - far more than any
other app.

What is the expected output?
An app that uses less than EIGHT GIGS of virtual memory.

What do you see instead?
 PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE
19487 GrowlMenu    0.0%  0:03.85   2   103    240 4284K    12M  6036K  8602M 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
OS 10.5.8
Growl 1.2

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http://forums.cocoaforge.com/search.php?fid[]=6&sid=6d88992b8317cc40853040992b43
9374
It seems to reserve it but not really use it.

I noticed this on my Mac, which has been up for 24 days.  But if I stop and
start GrowlMenu from preferences, the process goes away and comes right
back at 8GB.  It seems to be a memory reservation; there isn't 8GB of disk
activity.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by elvey.matthew on 5 Dec 2009 at 7:08