I have a 2012 Macbook air that is always running out of memory. I have 4 GB ram in the computer and cannot add more without buying a new computer. Mainly, I am running out of RAM.
I think DTOP is among the RAM hogs. I need it for a few programs that I have to be able to use on the go. They are all RAM hogs. I am not upgrading to Mojave and intend to just stay behind the times with this computer because my needs on it are so limited. Will this help my problem? I have Devonthink 3 and Devonthink 2. Both DTOP. Thanks to Jim Neuman, it looks like I will be able to replace Evernote with DT on the go. Is there any reason to upgrade the RAM short 2012 Macbook air that I use for limited purposes?
Is there any way to limit the RAM use of DTOP? I see that I should keep as few databases open as possible. My big databases have about 1 GB. But the ones in constant use have 2 GB and 5 GB. Is there anything else I could do?
You could also try to optimize (see File menu) databases every then and now. Opening only necessary databases reduces of course memory usage too. What’s the item/word count (see File > Database Properties) of your databases?
Hello Bluefrog,
I agree totally with you, more RAM will solve many problems, but what to do when you reach the limits of installed RAM ?
Since I have installed the DT3.0 some strange things happens, they did not occur with the beta versions and also with DTPO 2 before.
I have a similar problem, my Mac mini shows me a memory requirement of DT3 as 63 GB with 2 open databases (one 2 GB, the other 500 MB). This of course stops the computer. What is happening?
How many items/words (see File > Database Properties) do the databases contain? Does this happen right after launching DEVONthink 3 and opening these databases or only after performing certain actions?
Perhaps try using the trial versions of these memory cleanup apps (mentioned in point #9 of the article). I don’t have memory issue but I use parallel desktop tools to clean up memory regularly. I only use PD tools, and there is no need to quit any app during the process. Just a possible suggestion. This is not only for DT and I have no idea how it uses RAM, but it seems most apps are using more and more memory these days…?
The bigger database contains nearly 4 Million Words. When starting DT3 everything seems ok. After a while, when the computer is not used, it seems to me the memory increases slowly. e.g. when I wrote the first message after I have started DT3, the memory used was at 283 MB. I went away and leave DT3 in the background for two hours, when I returned the memory of DT3 increases to 880 MB.
Do you have an explanation ?
Does DEVONthink perform any scheduled operations, e.g. sync or refresh feeds or reminders or scheduled smart rules? Do you use iCloud for synchronizing?
There was a preinstalled smart rule, it was not my work. It checked the database and closed all files which are more than 30 days open, or in that way. I made no screen shot and can not exactly remember that. Now I removed it. I started DT3 again and it seems there is a better performance now. The memory increase is from 123 MB to 150 MB within 2 hours, even with re-enabling the iCloud Sync.
I tried to edit and created a compound predicate under “kind is any document” for Last Month but it didn’t do anything after I saved it, instead it opened the “Smart Rules” pane as I had it hidden, wonder what happened there.
And in Automatic locking I have 3100. Wonder of that’s a lot
