On Apr 8, 2014, at 16:15 , Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > IIRC, the AppKit release notes for 10.9 (or 10.8?) talk about behavior > changes in +[NSImage imageNamed:]. Putting that together with what you’re > saying, it may be that it now memory-maps the image data instead of copying > it into heap space. That would be more memory efficient but has the side > effect of consuming a file descriptor.
What the release notes for 10.9 actually say is: > "Prior to Mac OS 10.9 images loaded through +[NSImage imageNamed:] were > retained for the lifetime of the application. For applications linked on 10.9 > and later this is no longer the case. Images loaded through +[NSImage > imageNamed:] will still be cached for a brief time.” which suggests less caching, not more, though file descriptor usage could still be implicated. The other thing is, in the past when I inadvertently used up all the file descriptors, the limit was about 8000 descriptors. If we’re talking about even a couple of hundred descriptors here, it seems likely that whatever’s using descriptors indiscriminately is elsewhere in the app. (Though of course avoiding the waste of a couple of hundred is worth doing too.) _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
