Memory issues in 1.4?

[Colin Barrett]

Great news, Evan. Mind updating or deleting the wiki page?

-Colin

On Oct 28, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:

> After further evaluation, I am not convinced that there is any difference between 1.4b18 and 1.4rc1 in terms of actual memory usage.  I suspect that due to performance issues introduced in 1.4b20 (which are fixed in 1.4rc2, pushed last night), folks checked Activity Monitor ("why is this going so slow?!") and noticed the memory usage, assuming it to be a new or causitive issue.
>  
> David and I discussed the preferences subsystem as one cause of high memory usage.  Fixing this without causing performance degradation is outside the scope of 1.4.0... and such a problem is not a regression.
>  
> -Evan
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:31 PM, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, memory usage should never go up between builds unless there's a major feature added that would account for it (64 bit Adium is expected to use more for example). Suggested debugging steps:
> 
> run leaks Adium > ~/Desktop/AdiumLeaks.txt
> run heap -guessNonObjects -sumObjectFields Adium > ~/Desktop/AdiumHeap.txt
> 
> Send both the files that generates on the desktop to one of us for analysis.
> 
>        David
> 
> On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Robert Vehse wrote:
> 
> > Hey folks,
> > is it to be expected that Adium uses a lot more memory in b20 and rc1?
> >
> > This has been reported: https://twitter.com/ziru/status/27751294113.
> > I responded: https://twitter.com/Adium/status/27771115566.
> > Further exchange:
> > - https://twitter.com/ziru/status/27966099959
> > - https://twitter.com/ziru/status/28755152270
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Robbie
> >
> 
> 
> 
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