Caffeine taking up 2.88GB virtual memory

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  •  16-10-2019
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Question

Caffeine

Caffeine is a small program. Why is it taking up so much virtual memory or am I reading this wrong?

Edit: persists across application and os restarts

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Solution

So apparently I was reading it wrong. According to Thomas Franzén ( lightheadsw )

Virtual memory size is a meaningless number for most uses. An application having a big virtual memory size doesn't affect you, because it's just a virtual memory space. The column you should be looking at is RSIZE. That's the actual amount of physical RAM an application is using.

I verified with ObjectAlloc and it seems like it is using only 8MB or so.

Memory test of Caffeine

OTHER TIPS

On my machine, it's using 30.2 MB, so you're right that yours is doing something out of the ordinary.

When you reboot, does it start at a lower number, or immediately jump to this level?
Do you usually have it clicked? (I don't)
Is it adding any messages to your console log?
What version of Caffeine are you running?

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