Is it just me, or does Leopard use RAM in a novel way compared to Tiger? For me Active + Wired totals up to over 1GB (Safari, Mail, iTunes, Adium open). This is with an erase and install.
Also, when I was on Tiger, after my computer had been on for the day, much of my RAM was classified as inactive allowing me to quickly reopen applications. However in Leopard, my inactive RAM has not gone above 50MB.
On another note, has anyone noticed slight stutters when using Expose? I found this was the case with my Archive and Install, so I decided to Erase and Install, but with both I still notice tiny hitches in the animation once in a while. This has been noted by others over at MacRumors. Hopefully Apple deals with this, in Tiger, expose was always smooth.
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What computer do you have?
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Maybe they introduced some sort of SuperFetch
...oh how much I'd laugh at knowing it may be true...
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MacBook 2.16 Core2Duo, 2GB RAM
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Regarding the stuttering, I just tried out a MBP at one of the Apple resellers here in Vancouver...Leopard looks awesome! But I did notice it occasionally stuttered. Its probably not a RAM issue but more a bug, as any other time it felt extremely smooth.
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I've seen people posting about the stuttering/sluggish performance with Expose and Spaces too. Fortunately, I haven't had any of these issues. Leopard has been 100% smooth and stutter free for me. This is on a Macbook Pro (15.4", 2.2ghz C2D Santa Rose, 2gb RAM, 8600GT).
Oh wait, I lied. If you try to do anything when Spotlight is indexing, it will obviously be laggy/sluggish since Spotlight is munching away at your CPU and HD. The only time this has been the case is when I first boot into Leopard (Spotlight always takes about 2-3 minutes to index). -
I have also noticed that Leopard gives me much more free RAM to use. However, it also seems to use more CPU power when idle. A trade off I suppose, CPU for RAM.
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Leopard RAM Usage
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by puresniper, Oct 28, 2007.