Syncrospector.app is a major memory hog
I'd noticed a marked decline in my laptop's performance in the last month or so. There was much thrashing and disappearing hard disk space. Since my PowerBook is maxed out on RAM, I was more or less resigned to the notion that it was time to get a new computer.
But today, in lieu of swearing vociferously and getting a snack while waiting for the swap storm to settle down, I decided to, you know, investigate.
It turns out Syncrospector (an unsupported but invaluable utility Apple provides for debugging your app's interaction with SyncServices) chews through memory like a horde of Rodentia on weed. Every time I ran my sync unit tests while Syncrospector was running, it would run through 2+Gbs of virtual memory, and push out everything else out in the process.
It's a simple fix (don't run Syncrospector and unit tests simultaneously) but, unfortunately, it means I don't yet have an excuse to buy that shiny new 8-core Mac Pro.
Posted by coughlin at 12:56 PM
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