The last few days I’ve been noticing my system lagging pretty badly at the end of the day.
On a whim, I took a look at mem usage in the task manager, and noticed the largest memory hog was not firefox as is the custom, but google desktop…
As I watched, google gobbled up memory at a rate of over 50K per second!
Auuga! I only have a few extensions installed - time, google calendar, weather (22C in SF, no way!), and my skype list. Indexing disabled. But considering it starts up with 7.5Mb, that’s a pretty huge increase. What’s up, Google? Didn’t have enough memory in the ol datacenter and had to use mine?
UPDATE: It appears to be related to the Skype Widget. After removing it, Google Desktop is no longer hogging all the memory. It’s a difficult position to be in for Google - they are putting their good name on the line with programmers that may or may not be very good. I wonder if OpenSocial will suffer the same sorts of issues.
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by plusbryan
Filed under: Random
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