awww, shucks. I don't even rate being a "someone".mpack wrote:Actually, you were not the "someone" I had in mind, I was thinking of Perry but didn't think the "who" was important.
I was trying to be funny. I guess I'll stop that now.
awww, shucks. I don't even rate being a "someone".mpack wrote:Actually, you were not the "someone" I had in mind, I was thinking of Perry but didn't think the "who" was important.
klaus on 2013-10-30 wrote:Lately there is an increase of extremely vague posts which don't contain the bare minimum information to reply anything sensible. Keep in mind that this results in your post being ignored, which is the opposite of what you want. So provide as much detail as you can, please, as this will ensure you get a good and fast answer.
Everybody faces it. You seem to be the only one that fails to understand that this is not a memory leak, it's OSX's built-in cache management at work. We asked for proof of the memory leak, not the memory usage. You confuse the two. The core process is not consuming more and more. OSX (or any other host OS) is giving memory to the process according to its needs until the resources are depleted. Cache memory. Here's the Wikipedia article on memory leak. A small excerpt, but please read the whole thing:nannou9 wrote:Funny thing is that nobody else seems to face it, while I am facing it with 100% success
Launch Firefox and go to a page that tests all 4572 fonts that you have installed locally in your computer. Memory usage attributed to Firefox is going to skyrocket. Why? Because your OS is caching the fonts as they are requested. Quit Firefox. Is that memory coming back? No. Why? Well, since the host OS bothered to load all these fonts in memory, and since nobody else is asking for memory allocation, it's going to keep the handle valid in case that someone else asks for that font. Is that a Firefox leak? No way.a memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in such a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released.