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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Mavericks - diskimages-helper
Date: 24 May 2014 16:16:28 GMT
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On 2014-05-24, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>
> Puzzled by Mavericks memory stats (Menu Meters shows one thing, Activity 
> Monitor something else) I've been watching it a bit closely.
>
> In Activity Monitor|Memory
>
> diskimages-helper is showing a whopping 7.81 GB of memory.
>
> App Memory is at a whoppinger 13.91 GB.  I only have a few, not 
> voracious apps loaded... (Mail, T-bird, calendar, reminders, messages, 
> Chrome.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/oqkuny6
>
> http://tinyurl.com/o47a55b
>
> Anyone else seeing huge allocations like this?
>
> Current up time is 8+ days.
>
> i7, 32 GB, 10.9.3

Dual 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon Mac Pro with 14 GB of RAM, running 10.9
latest, uptime 8+ days as well. diskimages-helper is using 4.7 MB.
Application Memory is at 7.55 GB with these applications running: 

Activity Monitor
Finder
iTunes
LaunchBar
Mail
Messages
PopChar
RealPlayer Downloader
Safari
Terminal
TextWrangler

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