Lion - Memory Usage Problems

That is my problem, precisley. Thanks for articulating it.

Does anybody know did a new Mountain Lion solved the memory problem?

Mountain Lion has not been released yet, so no one knows.

Allan

I know, but many of those who for months have tested Mountain Lion surely collected some insights on memory problem.

Nino

But they had to sign an NDA to do it. I know because i am one of them and I will say no more on Mtn Lion.

Allan

A logical extension to your question would be that if Apple fixed the problem in Mountain Lion, will they also fix it in Lion, an OS that a lot of us are stuck with due to hardware limitations. Bill Gates is smiling (I bet that he has an Apple computer to play with!).

The main reason that I will upgrade to Mountain lion is just the memory problem. But what to do if even in ML this problem isn't solved?

If it is truly an Apple problem, then they will have to solve it or become MS.

People are complaining that they had the same problem before the Lyon, during the time of Snow Leopard, even earlier. It's not fair to buy a Mountain Lion and does not know in advance if this issue is resolved or not. Sometimes I am feeling like I'm wasting money in casino.

No one has a gun to your head forcing you to upgrade.

Wait until you find out if it does what you want or don't upgrade.

my problem solved after i DELETE all my Wallpaper images !!! i think that the problem was when the OS load big images , not too big but i think that happen when the image was over 1MB or maybe 2MB , my biggest image was 8MB !!! i delete all big images and i leave only images up to 1MB and now i dont have a problem

i use 3 virtual desktops !!!

I wrote this script to be run every 10 minutes via a crontab job and it solved my problems. It runs purge when free memory gets below 250MB. I get the free memory by parsing the "top" command line output.

Hope it helps.

Ilias

#!/bin/bash


MM=`top -l 1 -n 0 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print $10}' |sed s/M//g`
echo "Free Memory:" $MM

if [ "$MM" -le "250" ]; then
    echo "Free memory is running low: " $MM"MB. Releasing now..."
    purge
    exit 0
else
    echo "Memory ammount" $MM"MB does not meet purge threshold."
    exit 0
fi

To make it run every 10 minutes type in console

crontab -e

And then in the configuration file add (replace the path to the path where you saved the script (it has to be exectuable):

*/10 * * * * /Users/xxx/pathToYourScript

Download and install the latest Flash Player from Adobe's website. (Deselecting "enable java" under Safari prefs also slows down the CPU usage, but then disallows java from running in the browser.)

This should fix the problem.

🙂 Good day to you!

No reaction to the mountain lion. It seems that the memory problems are solved. Who was it who claimed that the uncontrolled growth of inactive memory is normal?

Nothing is solved. Mountain Lion is no better than Lion. They optimized the OS for people with SSDs and those with HDD can just suck it up. I can't tell you the number of new Apple converts who started out on Lion and literally are wondering out loud where all that great software they have been hearing about went. This is an Apple disaster but they might be saved by technology if they just stops shipping HDDs as the main drive and switch 100% to SSDs in time. I am depressed about it. I bought a Mac mini at the same time as my MacBook Air. The mini is relatively unusable despite having the same amount of RAM and a faster processors.