Aperture 3.1 Serious memory usage (Memory Leak?)
Scenario:
- boot my MacPro with 24 GB RAM (64 Bit Kernel)
- start Aperture 3.1
- start working on a 20Mpixel photo (some basic adjustments)
- start applying a brushed BW adjustment
After a two minutes of intense last step (brushing) MacPro become choppy.
syslog write:
23/10/10 13.01.25 Aperture[296] Synchronous request, waiting for page to become ready
23/10/10 13.03.29 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Switching ON Emergency paging segment
23/10/10 13.03.37 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
23/10/10 13.03.37 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Failed to recover emergency paging segment
23/10/10 13.03.52 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
23/10/10 13.03.52 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Failed to recover emergency paging segment
23/10/10 13.03.37 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Failed to recover emergency paging segment
23/10/10 13.03.52 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
23/10/10 13.03.52 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Failed to recover emergency paging segment
23/10/10 13.04.19 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
23/10/10 13.04.19 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Failed to recover emergency paging segment
23/10/10 13.04.49 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
23/10/10 13.04.49 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Failed to recover emergency paging segment
23/10/10 13.05.25 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
23/10/10 13.05.25 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Failed to recover emergency paging segment
23/10/10 13.06.16 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
23/10/10 13.06.16 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Failed to recover emergency paging segment
23/10/10 13.07.05 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
23/10/10 13.07.05 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Failed to recover emergency paging segment
and so on...
Activity Monitor show Aperture consuming 22 GB of RAM! (and 23 of VMem)
System have all memory used(!) and 6 GB of swap in use!!
Then Aperture run in "infinite loop" one task processing image.
Quitting Aperture All memory is freed and syslog say:
23/10/10 13.08.22 kernel (default pager): [KERNEL]: Recovered emergency paging segment
Last update had killed AP3 😟
Apple Please fix ASAP! Aperture is not a toy, is a critical tool for Pro users!
p.s. someone have an idea to rollback to previously version?
MacPro (early 2008) 8 Core 3GHz - CinemaDisplay 30", Mac OS X (10.6.4), 24 GB ram - ATI Radeon HD 4870