huge memory leak in Yosemite

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huge memory leak in Yosemite

Postby MaxKaoss » Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:39 pm

Hi guys. Once i updated to Yosemite i got a huge memory leak running Pokerstars (20+ opened tables) + PokerTracker 4. Everything was fine on 10.9

Process "_windowserver" eats all the physical memory:

http://6.firepic.org/6/images/2014-10/2 ... uvih73.jpg

yeah 30+gb for process since i have only 10GB physical RAM

I noticed that more opened tables i have( i usually play 30 tables) more RAM eaten by that process . When i open 30 tables every then _windowsertver grows on 15-20mb every 5 seconds. If i play 4-5 tables then it eats WAY less RAM so it depends on opened tables. I tested Pokerstars with turned off PokerTracker and everything was fine and _windowserver was stable around 130mb during 2-3 hours with 30 opened tables:

http://6.firepic.org/6/images/2014-10/2 ... 2r1iuz.jpg

once i launched PokerTracker _windowserver started to eat all the memory again..

Also i googled and found that a lot of Yosemite users have various problems with that "_windowserver" but usually this process eats their CPU but not RAM like in my case. My _windowserver CPU usage is fine and small.. So i m not sure what is the real reason of memory leak : PokerTracker4 under Yosemite, PostregreSQL under Yosemite or entire Yosemite. .... I think its mostly because of PostgresQL that affected by _windowserver but could you guys check the problem please? I m waiting for Yosemite update but maybe i need to try other PostgresQL version for now? I m on 9.3.5.1
Its almost impossible to play poker with this problem . Please help:) Thanks
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Re: huge memory leak in Yosemite

Postby WhiteRider » Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:12 am

I suspect this will need a Yosemite update, but I will make the development team aware of this - thanks.
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Re: huge memory leak in Yosemite

Postby or1angur » Mon Dec 08, 2014 4:48 pm

Same issue. After upgrade to MacOS Yosemite huge memory leak.
Installing the last version of PostgreSQL didn't help, PokerTracker is the problem.
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Re: huge memory leak in Yosemite

Postby kraada » Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:58 pm

Unfortunately there's nothing we can do if Yosemite has a problem like that, it is something Apple needs to fix.
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Re: huge memory leak in Yosemite

Postby MaxKaoss » Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:02 pm

10.10.1 update they didnt fix it :( .. waiting for 10.10.2 ... as i know that windowserver process is responsible for all the GUI in Mac OS x. As i understand , PT4 draws a lot of graphic items (HUD) during multitabling and updates/re-draws those HUDs every hand on all the tables. All those graphics goes into that windowserver process all the time (every hand) and overload it after a while.

So at this moment the only option is close your pokerstars app, log-out from your mac os user account and then log-in back. Tired of this as hell, doing it every hour on breaks while playing tournaments and mt sng ...
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Re: huge memory leak in Yosemite

Postby kraada » Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:54 pm

Send an email to Apple if you haven't already advocating for this fix. It can't hurt and can only help.
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Re: huge memory leak in Yosemite

Postby kraada » Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:56 am

Try following the steps here in the first post - that may get things working for you.
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Re: huge memory leak in Yosemite

Postby MaxKaoss » Tue Dec 23, 2014 10:22 pm

thanks for the link. I tried that solution but it did not help :( damn apple.
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