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Re: Does Lion Have a Memory Leak?

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On 2014-05-22, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-05-21, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
>> >      Does Lion have a memory leak? I have a one-year old MacBook Pro
>> > that came with Lion. It has three users and most of the time all of them
>> > are logged on. This is not an issue with Unix, which I used for years
>> > professionally, and it's not an issue with my old G4 that runs Tiger.
>> > (Yes, the G4 runs slowly but it's not affected by the number of users
>> > logged on. If a user is running a compute hog, that's another story.)
>> >
>> >      Every once in a while, at least once a week it seems, the MacBook
>> > runs glacially slow. The only fix that I've discovered so far is to log
>> > everybody off and restart. Then all is good, at least for a while.
>> 
>> It sounds like you're assuming it's memory-related. Have you actually
>> examined the machine while the sluggish condition is present to see
>> what's actually going on?
>
>      Yes. Activity Monitor shows no CPU hogs and the amount of disk and
> network activity seem quite reasonable.

Where's the evidence of a leak?

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Does Lion Have a Memory Leak? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2014-05-20 23:13 -0700
  Re: Does Lion Have a Memory Leak? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-05-21 00:07 -0700
    Re: Does Lion Have a Memory Leak? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2014-05-21 23:50 -0700
  Re: Does Lion Have a Memory Leak? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-05-21 15:38 +0000
    Re: Does Lion Have a Memory Leak? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2014-05-21 23:50 -0700
      Re: Does Lion Have a Memory Leak? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-05-22 15:41 +0000
        Re: Does Lion Have a Memory Leak? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2014-05-23 06:56 -0700
          Re: Does Lion Have a Memory Leak? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-05-23 16:14 +0000

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