[GoCats]

I recently bought the Plextor px-tv402u which came with EyeTv 2. I really like it so far, but one thing really concerns me. When running EyeTV 2 ALL of my RAM gets 'eaten' up.

So, when I start EyeTV I usually have anywhere between 500MB - 1GB of RAM available. But after a little while of using EyeTV, I end up with only 25MB.

I checked to see what was using it in Top and Activity Monitor and couldn't quite tell... it said that EyeTV was using about 200MB, but when when I quit EyeTV all of my (expectedly) available ram re-appears.

I have 2.5GB or ram in my G5 2.7.

Has anyone else noticed this?

I wrote EyeTv and they said that it was just the way OS X worked, but I've never seen any other app do this.

BTW, I do not have the live stream cache in memory - I have it written to disk, or at least that's what I set the preference to.

[SSharon]

Elgato is correct. Unused memory is wasted memory. OS X is behaving normally when it does this as far as I know. My eyetv has always done this.

[King Bob On The Cob]

My g/f's eyeTV did this too, but she didn't have enough RAM and her computer would page like crazy.

[plastiqueusa]

I'm currently recording an HDTV stream on my Intel Mac Mini (2GB RAM, 8GB live buffer), and it's only taking 89.7 MB of memory.