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| Version 2.8: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (4.0) |
Support: | (1.5) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (1.0) |
Price: | (2.0) |
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memory leak persists - Version: 2.8, 9/16/2009 01:10AM PST
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plaintiger
memory leak persists - Version: 2.8, 9/16/2009 01:07AM PST
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plaintigeras someone noted about v.2.5, v.2.8.0 also leaks like a sieve. at launch on my system, PowerTicker uses 10.8 MB of RAM; the longer the app runs - that is, just the ticker running across the top of the screen; i don't use any of the app's other functions - the more RAM it takes up; i think the most i've caught it using is 760 MB.
it also seems to be less than fully compatible with Snow Leopard, as quitting PowerTicker - even before it's sucked up over 700 MB of RAM - leaves a motionless apparition of the ticker across my screen.
and finally, when the ticker is running - again, no matter how much RAM it's taken up so far - it's slightly jittery. it's a minor thing, but i can't help but think how much more pleasing it would be to look at if it rolled smoothly across the screen.
i love PowerTicker's ticker - jitters aside, it's the nicest-looking one i've found. but behind the scenes is a rather flawed mass of code that nobody seems terribly interested in fixing. i wish they did, but the fact that it's leaked memory for at least ten years now - since before WhiteNile owned it - and that it's been updated somewhere around once every three or four years and none of those updates has addressed the app's biggest problems - doesn't give me much reason to hope.
Intel version, maybe? - Version: 2.7.3, 7/17/2008 06:52PM PST
plaintiger
PowerTicker X and the *shudder* Microsoft AU Daemon are the only two PPC processes on my machine. can we anticipate an update/upgrade that will bring PowerTicker X to Intel?
as someone noted about v.2.5, v.2.8.0 also leaks like a sieve. at launch on my system, PowerTicker uses 10.8 MB of RAM; the longer the app runs - that is, just the ticker running across the top of the screen; i don't use any of the app's other functions - the more RAM it takes up; i think the most i've caught it using is 760 MB.
it also seems to be less than fully compatible with Snow Leopard, as quitting PowerTicker - even before it's sucked up over 700 MB of RAM - leaves a motionless apparition of the ticker across my screen.
and finally, when the ticker is running - again, no matter how much RAM it's taken up so far - it's slightly jittery. it's a minor thing, but i can't help but think how much more pleasing it would be to look at if it rolled smoothly across the screen.
i love PowerTicker's ticker - jitters aside, it's the nicest-looking one i've found. but behind the scenes is a rather flawed mass of code that nobody seems terribly interested in fixing. i wish they did, but the fact that it's leaked memory for at least ten years now - since before WhiteNile owned it - and that it's been updated somewhere around once every three or four years and none of those updates has addressed the app's biggest problems - doesn't give me much reason to hope.