Activity Monitor and Widget question

[mackaveli]

K i never really used activity monitor before but i was just checking it cause Maya 6.5 would unexpected quit a lot, (maybe this is because of tiger)?

K, i know widgets arent taking any %CPU but its taking about 20MB under the real category under System memory.

Is that for the ram? cause i only have 1gb, and so i was wondering maybe i should just close the widgets if it takes that much memory? i have no idea when it comes to this talk. like if i closed all the widgets from dashboard would maya run better or its a bug???

thanks.

 

[mad jew]

Sure, widgets take up a bit of RAM but with 1GB you really should be fine. How many do you have running? My guess is it's a bug, not a lack of RAM problem, but hopefully I'm wrong because RAM problems are much easier to fix.

 

[TreeHugger]

K i never really used activity monitor before but i was just checking it cause Maya 6.5 would unexpected quit a lot, (maybe this is because of tiger)?

K, i know widgets arent taking any %CPU but its taking about 20MB under the real category under System memory.

Is that for the ram? cause i only have 1gb, and so i was wondering maybe i should just close the widgets if it takes that much memory? i have no idea when it comes to this talk. like if i closed all the widgets from dashboard would maya run better or its a bug???

thanks.

sounds like its a bug... I would check maya's website if they have any known tiger bugs and if they have an update for tiger.

1gb of RAM should be plenty for at least the widgets.

 

[mackaveli]

well i had like 10, but than i just closed it to 3,

its really annoying with maya, i just click on some thing and it just closes, never had this problem before, but i jsut got a new powermac so no idea,

hopefully its a bug,

i'll go read the forums and check out the site. thanks.

 

[abrooks]

Almost certainly a bug, something like that wouldn't be caused by a lack of RAM, and the widgets do you use up RAM but they will happily give it up if needed by another application.