Memory Usage Getter 2.0 is out!

[simX]

Go to http://homepage.mac.com/simx/ to download Memory Usage Getter 2.0. Released, and gets the memory usage with a vengeance (even better than OS 9's!)! You should also be able to find it on versiontracker.com soon...

But it's awesome, and registration is only $5.

And it's made by.... yours truly.

[ksuther]

Good work! Very pretty. Two definite problems.
1. Very slow. I just takes a long time to refresh and display
2. Takes up an excessive amount of CPU time. When displaying it take up to 90% of the CPU on my TiBook. Bad times!

Other than that, very good job

[GadgetLover]

SimX, looks great! Nice GUI.

However ...

there are a lot of AppleScript 'popup' errors. I'll log 'em and let you know.

Keep it up!

[themacko]

This may be a bit of an advanced feature, but it would be sweet if, when minimized in the dock, the icon would show how much mem is currently free.

But it's freaking awesome dude. Very nice job!

[simX]

ksuther: Thanks for alerting me to the CPU usage problem. That's related to the progress bars. It seems that I guess I'll have to do a 2.0.1 update. I have a build here that at least tells them to stop after it's done updating (after refreshing or looking at the next page), and it takes up absolutely 0% of the CPU usage when not refreshing. For now I'm hoping that will be OK, but I guess I'll have to be finding another way to graphically display the memory usage; maybe I can just use a set of horizontal lines that I can change the bounds of, but that certainly won't be as simple as a progress bar. I wish that Apple included something like the "relevance" bar in Sherlock, but it doesn't look like there's anything like that.

Themacko: I'll see if I can do that with AppleScript, but no guarantees.

GadgetLover: Please send me some screenshots (or at least the error messages themselves) of what you're getting. It seems that the intermittent "Can't make 'failure' into an integer." bug is still there, so I'll have to smoke it out. But other than that, I don't know of any bugs.

Version 2.0 seems to be pretty solid if I may say so myself, but I have plenty more in store for updates. I'm hoping to add a simple help file to explain memory usage in OS X (like wired, active, and inactive memory usage -- if you haven't clicked on the overall memory usage progress bar yet, do so). Other things I think I can do is have MUG quit/relaunch a selected application, allow the user to choose what goes into the "Other User Processes" tab, allow a window for viewing all of the processes in one big page (hopefully if I can't do this graphically, I can do it textually), and maybe even refresh the memory usage of a single process (although that would be kind of pointless because I might as well update the whole thing).

About the slowness issues: I don't know if I can remedy those; I can try to make my code more efficient and optimize it, but I don't know if it will make that much of a difference. MUG seems to really be sluggish when you have tons of apps open, so keep this in mind. I hope maybe it's just that because AppleScript Studio is early in its age, so maybe Apple will make it faster -- but I'll certainly try and keep my code as small as possible.

[googolplex]

It seemed very solid to me. The final and all your betas. I didn't ever see any errors. Does it work while giving the errors, or does it not work at all?

[Jadey]

I got only one pop-up AppleScript error. I clicked on the 3 tabs and didn't let any of them load, then I clicked on the "refresh" button again. That gave me an error BUT.... I couldn't reproduce it even by clicking like crazy once again.

I couldn't believe how little ram I had free! I need to invest in some more.

[jeb1138]

Very hand app - I've always wanted something like this. One thing though: if I have IE open I get an "unexpectedly quit" message when I try to start Memory Usage Getter. Sometimes happens w/ OmniWeb too. If I quit them, start Memory Usage Getter and then restart IE/OmniWeb it works.