After migrating from my PB G4 1.25GB RAM to MBP 3GB RAM I can confirm
the plugin prep is highly RAM dependent
as I added to the description on http://www.realsoftware.com/feedback/
viewreport.php?reportid=azjjgpbo
"This problem is definitely one related to memory. On my PPC G4
1.5GHz machine it takes a lot longer than the 5 minutes Bob reports -
more like about 40 minutes and likewise, processor is not the
limiting factor.
On my Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo with 3GB of RAM it takes a few seconds.
The REAL memory for RB went up to 1.33GB and Virtual 1.72GB.
On lower-spec machines the VM requirements can cause massive vm file
allocation and if that space is fragmented, you can end up with
fragmented page files. One of my worst test cases, with 5.8GB free on
the PPC and only Safari and iTunes running apart from RB, ended up
pushing out to NINE swapfiles, the last of which was in 579 extents.
In cases like that the user will see what looks almost like a frozen
machine - the pagefile thrashing will totally consume the machine for
up to hours.
It seems like there's not only an incredible consumption of memory
going on (I really struggle to understand just what you could be
doing in preparing plugins that requires THAT much memory) but there
is also a poor locality of reference so there's a lot of leaping
around in that massive VM space (speaking as someone who's been aware
of VM side-effects and paging since I was a VAX/VMS systems
programmer back in the 80's)."
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