Dear Blick, Herb, and WeatherCat Macintosh caregivers,
I am quite interested in what you are reporting. What does it mean when one is not using any compressed memory?
I assume Yosemite only resorts to memory compression when it is getting short of memory. More accurately, I think it depends on this new metric called
"memory pressure." If you have enough ram on your computer to run all your applications, then compression isn't used.
Why is WC taking up twice as much memory on your machine as on mine? See attached.
Does this . . . answer your question!?!Uh, more technically I believe that it is a manifestation of the same Yosemite memory leak bug that is also affecting
Path Finder. WeatherCat has always exhibited a slow memory creep since Stu implemented synthetic channels and I modified
WC Status Growler to allow me to graph WeatherCat memory use. I'm not the only one who has noticed this. Randall also reported seeing WeatherCat 2.0 creeping in memory use during the private beta testing. Since we aren't all seeing it, it cannot be a bug in WeatherCat itself. Also, it has to be somehow related to the model of Mac you are running it on. I suspect that Apple still as some bugs in their video code of Yosemite. That's why it effects multiple applications.
Definitely another case of . . . . .
Oh well, . . . . . Edouard