So my memory usage in Leopard is WAY down. I have Safari, DragThing, SSHKeychain, perl daemons, MySQL, Apache, MacCvsX, Eudora, BBEdit, iChat, Terminal ... a lot of things running. Before this would put me into swap. Now, it does not. Not even close: with 2GB total, I have about 700MB unused.
It's ... just wow. HUGE performance increases in Leopard for me, just by not going into swap. I think some memory leak was fixed, or something. I dunno. But I like.
The biggest new memory pig is "helpdatad." Open Activity Monitor, sort by RSIZE, go into the Help menu of Activity Monitor, type into the new "Search" field, hit return, and watch helpdatad climb to the top. 180MB without breaking a sweat.
I killed the process and vowed to never type into that field again.
Re:Stop it!
sigzero on 2007-11-02T11:25:05
I am just waiting a bit to see if any bugs are flushed out. Then I jump!
Re:What about Perl?
pudge on 2007-11-02T06:46:56
Perl is 5.8.8. Apart from that, beats me. I don't use the system perl.:-)
Re:not seeing it
pudge on 2007-11-07T07:11:17
I am not seeing it all the time. Just sometimes.Re:not seeing it
pudge on 2007-11-08T18:03:17
Neat. I don't understand exactly how the ssh agent thing works though, which scares me. But I think I get the gist of it.
Re:your LAMP setup
pudge on 2007-11-15T19:15:33
You mentioned perl, apache, etc. How'd you build your setup? Which Xcode do you have installed 3.0 or 2.5 or both?I build all my own stuff (except MySQL, where I get a binary from mysql.com) and put it in
I'm seeing all sorts of weirdness w/ this upgraded 10.4 to 10.5 laptop (I have XCode 3,2.5, and used stock perl... ya, I know, I shouldn't have). make on slashcode dies terribly. I'm guessing I need to do a fresh install and swipe the/System/Library/Perl from it, and then go with all my LAMP devel stuff in /usr/local. /usr/local/. I don't use any stock stuff, except for the build tools from Xcode. It's been so long since I built this I am not sure what I used, probably gcc 3.
