That’s nearly three times the RAM being used. What could account for this discrepancy? I tend to have separate databases for separate categories of work as much as possible to optimise performance, but when I open more databases the RAM used quickly increases to 500 MB, and that’s before I’ve started doing anything substantially.
I’m wondering if I’m missing some preferences setting or similar in DT3 that’s known to increase RAM usage. Or maybe the DT3 beta still has aspects which impact memory usage that the release version won’t have?
What’s the memory right after launching version 2/3 and right after opening this database? The memory usage might increase in both versions while using the database as not all data is loaded while initializing it (but cached afterwards to speed up things like see also & classify, concordance or searching).
Theses values were obtained immediately after opening the application and then opening the test database by File > Open Database. No other operations were performed.
Thanks! The difference is probably caused by the new features/interface and the linked frameworks. The memory usage of the databases should be more or less the same.
I’m working with an iMac with 32GB of RAM. I know the memory is there to be used, but I was just wondering if this was ‘normal’, and how things might go, looking ahead, when I’m working with larger databases.
There are other applications that seem to require large amounts of RAM - Lightroom in particular. I guess there’s always the sudo purge command if it seems ‘critically stale’.
As a matter of interest, what values do you obtain when you do the same thing as above?
