I still experience the same problem. Long gone are the days where I could just keep Skim running for days on end. I now have gotten used to having to quit it periodically to get the memory back. So my guess is that Apple has not addressed the problem.
José > On 1 Sep 2016, at 13:23, Jan David Hauck <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have to come back again to the thread from earlier this year about the > likely El Capitan PDFKit Memory leak. > > It seems that something has changed from the previously reported behavior, it > now seems that some memory is given back to the system, but still not all. > > I had 30 pdfs open and it said it was using 23 GB of RAM (total memory). > Upon closing 8 of them it went down to 20 GB. > After closing Skim and restoring the session these 22 now newly opened pdfs > only needed about 2 GB. > But after keeping Skim open for a while, reading through pdfs, annotating > etc. it slowly kept growing again, now it's back to 7 GB, roughly 24 hours > later. > Shouldn't it give back memory automatically even when not closing pdfs? > > I'm afraid, I now far too little about how this works or should work, so > maybe it's just that I open too many pdfs or that my pdfs are too big. But > I'm wondering if others can also still report odd behavior, and if there > might still be something wrong with PDFKit? > Did Apple ever respond to any of the bug reports? > > > > PS: Same behavior in Preview. > > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Dec 20, 2015, at 23:18, José Miguel Figueroa-O'Farrill >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I’m running Skim Version 1.4.16 (90) on Mac OS X Version 10.11.2 (15C50). >> >> I wonder whether anyone else has seen this behaviour: Skim is using a huge >> amount of RAM. According to Activity Monitor, Skim is using >> >> Skim | 13.42 GB | 7.49 GB | 11 | 283 >> >> in the notation >> >> App | Memory | Compressed Memory | Threads | Ports >> >> In fact, the system ran out of application memory yesterday and I think it >> was due to Skim. (It was one of two apps which were not responding.) >> >> I’ve gone back to 1.4.15 (89) for now. >> >> Cheers, >> José >> > > BTW, it does seem like more people are seeing this. Moreover, it is also seen > in Preview. That means, as I would expect if it’s really there, that it’s a > bug in PDFKit in ElCap (one of many serious bugs, unfortunately). I’ve > reported this to Apple, but given how (non) responsive they are on the even > more obvious and visible (and simpler to fix!) bugs, I don’t expect them to > fix this before 10.12. > > Christiaan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users Prof José Figueroa-O'Farrill School of Mathematics University of Edinburgh PGP Key: 0x6A6BD529 (MIT PGP Key Server) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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