I’m getting pretty annoyed by the performance of my year-old iBook these days, mostly due to my DSL not working properly and running out of RAM (neither of which is really the fault of the hardware persay). After noticing that I was has 870MB of RAM “Used” (of 1GB total) according to my iStat Nano widget (basically a wrapper to top or Activity Monitor), I started trying to quit stuff to get that back down. With everything closed, I was using 697MB.. Blech.
I shutdown, restarted. Here’s my startup log:
| Action | Used (MB) | Difference (MB) |
|---|---|---|
| Startup | 224 | n/a |
| Thunderbird | 267 | 43 |
| Firefox (google.com) | 314 | 47 |
| FF to gmail.com | 324 | 10 |
| Adium | 341 | 17 |
| Finder (new window, browsing) | 351 | 10 |
| Terminal | 365 | 14 |
| Teminal–3 new windows | 378 | 13 |
| Firefox–two new tabs, sites | 378 | 8 |
| Azureus | 446 | 68 (!!) |
Blah, I thought life should at least be decent with 1GB RAM?!
Update: This document from Apple helps explain why only some of the columns in Activity Monitor are interesting.