Memory Software

Rhisiart

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Does anyone know of a software product that can help me to work out if some errant programme on my G4 is using too much memory?
 
rhisiart said:
Does anyone know of a software product that can help me to work out if some errant program on my G4 is using too much memory?
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Utilities>Activity Monitor

I believe this is sufficient to track memory usage, you can select each App in detail.

;)
 
Alternatively, from Terminal, run "top". The information you'll get from it is much the same, though.
 
iStat Pro is a free widget which shows all info about your computer (Memory usage, CPU, Network ..etc...). Good if you want a quick way to view this sort of information.
 
Madelin said:
iStat Pro is a free widget which shows all info about your computer (Memory usage, CPU, Network ..etc...). Good if you want a quick way to view this sort of information.
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Thanks Madelin.

OK, here's my problem. According iStat (with only Camino and Dashboard active) I have:

95MB of wired memory
154MB of active memory
372 MB of inactive memory
140 MB of free memory

None of this means anything to me. I don't know whether this is good or bad.

If I use Activity Monitor, presumably I have to have all my programmes running in order to detect some huge memory take up.
 
CaribbeanOS-X said:
Are you still searching for the errant program?;)[/FONT]
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Thanks for this. I opened every programme I have individually. Nothing seems awry.

I used Applejack and now my system is working much faster. It seems to have found a corrupt preference.
 
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