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Itsycal is a tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar. http://www.mowglii.com/itsycal
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Regularly disappears from status bar+becomes unresponsive (MacOS High Sierra) #79

Closed mattwkelly closed 6 years ago

mattwkelly commented 7 years ago

I'm on MacOS High Sierra 10.13. When clicked, itsycal becomes unresponsive for ~10 seconds (spinning beach ball) and then finally appears. Also, it regularly disappears from the status, even though it appears in activity monitor. Killing the app and relaunching fixes it (for a while).

sfsam commented 7 years ago

Does it use an excessive amount of memory? I'm wondering if this bug is a duplicate of https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal/issues/54.

mattwkelly commented 7 years ago

Yes, it appears that's the case. Here's what it looks like after having it open for ~10 seconds and clicking on it a dozen or so times.

screen shot 2017-10-19 at 11 37 16 am
sfsam commented 7 years ago

Could you please try the following:

  1. Quit Itsycal.
  2. Go to System Preferences... > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Calendars and uncheck Itsycal. This revokes calendar access to Itsycal so it can no longer display your events.
  3. Restart Itsycal and observe memory usage for a while. What happens?
  4. Quit Itsycal.
  5. Go back to System Preferences and regrant calendar access.
  6. Restart Itsycal and observe memory usage for a while. What happens?
mattwkelly commented 7 years ago

3: Memory usage stays around ~15mb. 6: Memory usage keeps increasing.

So it appears it's the Mac Calendar integration causing issues.

Sturek commented 6 years ago

I have the same issue. The icon does not disappear from my menubar, but other than that, the same issues. As I have an older MacBook Air, the memory consumption makes itsycal unusuable pretty quickly, unfortunately.

sfsam commented 6 years ago

UPDATE: It looks like this test version does not address the issue.

I've put together a test version of Itsycal that might address the memory leak. I still have no idea what is causing it, so this is a shot in the dark. I've had one user test it so far with promising results and another with not-so promising results.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/itsycal/Itsycal-test.zip

Please let me know if it makes a difference.

adamweeks commented 6 years ago

High Sierra 10.13.1 seems to have resolved the issue for me. Memory usage has held at under 50MB while running the past week.

Sturek commented 6 years ago

This seems to have solved it for me as well. Still using the regular version of itsycal.

mattwkelly commented 6 years ago

I'm still seeing the issue on High Sierra 10.13.1, it just takes a couple of hours instead of minutes to balloon memory usage. (At the time of this comment, it's at 2.59GB after ~2 hours)

sfsam commented 6 years ago

I don't know the cause, but I don't think 10.13.1 has anything to do with it. I think it's a coincidence. It seems to be something transient where it affects some people for a while and then goes away. I haven't seen it yet on my end and I'm still stumped. Did you try the test version?

Sturek commented 6 years ago

You were right, after one more day, the memory usage was too high again. I've been running the test version you posted for two days now and am still at 29 MB. I'll continue to test, but it's looking good so far, the number changes far less already.

mattwkelly commented 6 years ago

I'm trying the test version now and will follow up. Thanks!

Sturek commented 6 years ago

Over the weekend, the test version has now racked up more than 100 megs. It's still usable, but becoming slower. Sorry.

sfsam commented 6 years ago

@Sturek et al: Thanks for checking. I updated the comment above to reflect that the test version does not appear to resolve this issue.

mattwkelly commented 6 years ago

I started the test version ~12 hours ago and it's at 586MB and increasing. So it's steadily increasing as well, although at a much slower pace.

tomharrisonjr commented 6 years ago

I ran into this and presumably #54 as well today. I have disabled calendar access in Privacy settings and memory seems to be steady. macOS 10.13.2 with all patches as of 2017-12-18

Is there any chance that the specific calendar services behind this issue? I have had many, many issues over the last few years with the integration of our company's Office 365 calendar (Exchange/Outlook) with macOS calendar. I also sync with my personal Google calendar, plus a couple of shared calendars. Just providing some details in case this is helpful in isolating the issue.

sfsam commented 6 years ago

I think this issue is the same as #54 which I believe has been fixed.

mattwkelly commented 6 years ago

I can confirm it's fixed for me. Thanks so much!