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<blockquote data-quote="emperorminge" data-source="post: 936568" data-attributes="member: 53853">Since upgrading (not a clean re-install) to Snow Leopard, I've been having ongoing memory issues requiring at least daily reboots. It was so bad, I would boot in and without opening any apps at all, be out of memory (down to 10-20 free mb) within 2-3 hours. Safe mode didn't help - the machine still ran out of available memory after a period of time. This was causing beach balls when opening a Finder window, browser crashes, and just a generally sluggish system.Frustrated, i was heading towards blowing the whole thing away and doing a fresh, sparkly, install from clean format. Welcome back to the world of Windows - get a new OS, get ready to start again...Anyways, it turns out all my memory management and usage issues were caused by the stock OS random photo screen saver - the one that places your iPhoto pictures randomly onscreen. I turned that off and changed to the default 'Flurry' screen saver. Lo and behold, memory issues are a thing of the past.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emperorminge, post: 936568, member: 53853"] Since upgrading (not a clean re-install) to Snow Leopard, I've been having ongoing memory issues requiring at least daily reboots. It was so bad, I would boot in and without opening any apps at all, be out of memory (down to 10-20 free mb) within 2-3 hours. Safe mode didn't help - the machine still ran out of available memory after a period of time. This was causing beach balls when opening a Finder window, browser crashes, and just a generally sluggish system. Frustrated, i was heading towards blowing the whole thing away and doing a fresh, sparkly, install from clean format. Welcome back to the world of Windows - get a new OS, get ready to start again... Anyways, it turns out all my memory management and usage issues were caused by the stock OS random photo screen saver - the one that places your iPhoto pictures randomly onscreen. I turned that off and changed to the default 'Flurry' screen saver. Lo and behold, memory issues are a thing of the past. [/QUOTE]

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