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
> 
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