How on earth can I be using this much RAM?

[skye]

My system resources is REALLY slow.

What is going on?

 

[Richie_Gecko]

My system resources is REALLY slow.

What is going on?

Man...I can't read that screenshot at all.

 

[MacHeadCase]

Me neither. It's too small... :biohazard

 

[MacMania55]

Yeah make bigger please.

 

[skye]

here is a pic to a bigger link:

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=446533468&size=o

 

[CrossBones]

Heh...whattya all need glasses?

Yep pretty small there my man!

 

[Kash]

Wow, something is definitely wrong. All of your processes besides Safari are using up 2-3x the amount of RAM compared to my machine. Your copy of Safari is using up 10-15x the amount of RAM it is on my Mac.

I honestly have no idea how to fix this sort of problem. Just wanted to state that it's definitely not normal.

 

[skye]

all these probs seem to be after the 10.4.9 patch.

hmm, maybe ill call apple see what they say

 

[MacHeadCase]

Re-apply the 10.4.9 combo manually, see where this takes you.

 

[eric]

have you restarted?

 

[skye]

yeah a billion times.

i am on the phone right now waiting for applecare.

whee wait time

 

[MacHeadCase]

Oh and if you do re-apply the 10.4.9 combo update, don't forget this and unplug all peripherals (except keyboard and mouse, natch!) before the install.

 

[skye]

blech. time is up. they are closed.

 

[eric]

have you restarted?

yeah a billion times.

there's your problem.

too much restarting.

 

[skye]

lol, its a habit from my winxp/ME days.

 

[skye]

well, after another reboot from updating the patch. i watched the RAM meter on istat nano...it slowly went up and up and up(the RAM being used).

memory leak?

i am repairing permissions now.

 

[skye]

blech. still no fix. should i borrow an external HD and archive and install?

edit:
these are taken shortly after a reboot, couple minutes

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=446723487&size=o
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=446723485&size=o

not much that was open either

 

[Brown Study]

If you drop the computer into a tub of water, bubbles will reveal the memory leak, and you can temporarily patch it with gum.

But if that doesn't work, try the single-user restart, fsck -fy thing, or better yet use Applejack that can also look for corrupted preferences in the system and in your personal user's files.

 

[skye]

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=446732550&size=o

could this be the problem?

i thought i uninstalled paralells by dragging its folder to trash

 

[skye]

well according to applecare, i need to wait. ugh

they emailed me a program and had me attach the results to an email and they will call me back in 3-5 business days