[rotuts]

Im guessing its ok to put this question in hardware as it deals with memory.

I have a G4dual 1ghz with 1.25G memory. for the first time while using a newsreader called THOTH when trying to get a newsgroup list I get the not enough memory alert with the THOTH icon on the window:

"not enough memory to complete the command or operation {-108@85} to make more memory available try colsing windows.

loooking in activity monitor there seems to be plenty of hard and VM available. OS 10.3.9

this is the first time this haas happend to me in OS X. I recall it happening a lot in 9 then you had to allocate more ,memory to each app. I was under the impresion that this was handled automaticlly in X..

of note for a few days my whole sys has been very slow and sluggish. I opend activity monitor and found 4 crashreports or logs open in that window. I did a force quit on them and a reboot and I seem to be back to my normals spped.

only THOTH is running at the time my memory window opens.

any ideas> I did run first aide and repaired permissions prior to this to help look into the slowdown and there was nothing wrong then

cheers and thanks

rotuts

[Big Mac]

You must be getting this alert from Thoth. It sounds like the program is damaged or buggy. Try reinstalling it.

[new newton]

When you use unsupported software, you take your chances.

[rotuts]

thanks. after a second reboot and dunping everything I could think of, cache etc it seems to be back up to speed. Ill have to look for another newsreader. Ill ask in the apps section
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'but thanks

rotuts

[rotuts]

thanks. after a second reboot and dunping everything I could think of, cache etc it seems to be back up to speed. Ill have to look for another newsreader. Ill ask in the apps section
'
'but thanks

rotuts

[bowwowman]

uummmm...............

it's called a memory leak, something that is all too common in poorly-coded apps. If left running long enough, it will eat up every single byte of ram & vm, regardless of how much you have........

Even Safari used to do this to some extent, and IIRC, still does somewhat

[Catfish_Man]

Actually it may or may not be a memory leak. Most memory leaks don't have noticeable symptoms, and some non-leak problems can look like memory leaks. You can use the leaks command in terminal to determine if that's actually what it is (leaks AppName). Almost all apps have a few leaks; look at the output at the top to determine how much memory has been leaked.

[OreoCookie]

… and this is a hardware question, because …?