Jing takes HOW MUCH MEMORY?!
Posted on Thursday April 10, 2008 by Bill Scanlon
Hiya,
As you may have noticed, the current version (1.4.8028) of Jing for Windows (or winJing as we call it internally) has HUGE 'memory leaks (errr...poor memory management. .NET doesn't have 'memory leaks').
Well, we are sorry about that. And we've finally gotten around to fixing a bunch of them. The fixes will be in the next update which should be coming out very soon.
A word of warning.
It might happen that you run that next update, open Task Manager, take a peek at Jing and say 'Whaaa? 200 MB Mem Usage?! You haven't fixed anything!'
Well, yes it's possible (even likely) that we still have some clean up to do. But, basically Jing will always appear to take up a healthy chunk of memory. I'm going to write a short series of blog posts on why the memory usage is biggish, what you should expect as normal memory usage and also suggest a better way to monitor Jing for any future poor memory management.
As always, if you see any performance degradation in Jing or other applications when running Jing, please let us know via TechSmith technical support.
have a good day,
bill 'a developer' scanlon
Comments contest (no prizes)
As a fond farewell to the old, leaky Jing, let's see who can leave a capture of their largest Jing Mem Usage.
I'll start it off with my current memory usage
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Comments (10)
So this isn't the case w/ Mac?
Posted by Daniel Fischer | April 10, 2008 10:12 PM
Posted on April 10, 2008 22:12
@Daniel: That's right. I should be absolutely clear about that. The Mac is completely different.
Posted by Bill Scanlon | April 11, 2008 9:08 AM
Posted on April 11, 2008 09:08
Mine is 120,912 K Memory :)
http://screencast.com/t/5MT6wUuwVuG
Posted by User | April 11, 2008 2:43 PM
Posted on April 11, 2008 14:43
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/5910/Jing/2008-04-12_1631.png
and
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/5910/Jing/2008-04-12_1628.png
Thomas
Posted by Thomas Schaaf | April 12, 2008 11:08 AM
Posted on April 12, 2008 11:08
http://screencast.com/t/X6QTnCXlBO3
405,332 K
Posted by Henry | April 12, 2008 1:44 PM
Posted on April 12, 2008 13:44
Mine is 447,916
http://screencast.com/t/mHqFGZTS47
http://screencast.com/t/X6VtGfpZ
My other posts are not getting accepted?
Posted by Thomas Schaaf | April 12, 2008 3:24 PM
Posted on April 12, 2008 15:24
This is with the 4/10 update.
Posted by Brenda VM | April 13, 2008 2:06 PM
Posted on April 13, 2008 14:06
http://screencast.com/t/WDIzRBecr
Oops - trying again - 4/10 update
Posted by Brenda VM | April 13, 2008 2:07 PM
Posted on April 13, 2008 14:07
4 gigs FTW
Posted by Daniel | April 28, 2008 11:16 PM
Posted on April 28, 2008 23:16
@Daniel:
What? No screen shot?
Posted by Bill Scanlon | April 29, 2008 7:32 AM
Posted on April 29, 2008 07:32