Unknownm

Wow, Dashboard runs the widgets but each widget takes it own memory . Leopard it doesn't work like that. Dashboard is one big process take includes everything into one app (and uses less memory by stock)

gah.

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BlankThis

Yeah it's best to have less widgets.

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Unknownm

I have none. I took them off..

even with that, I still have about 200/300Mbs free for real memory. Leopard is sounding way more better

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The Hundred Gunner

Not sure how it works exactly, but there are still multiple Dashboard processes running in Leopard. If you check Activity Monitor, you will see.

For example, right now I have 8 Widgets running, and they are using ~20, ~20, ~10, and ~8MB.

In Tiger, each one would seem to have its own process and take about 10MB each.

Oh, and if in Leopard you use Web Clip to make Widgets, they will take ~50MB each. Those are the ones you can select a webpage area in Safari and make a Widget out of it.

In all, like XP compared to vista, memory management is different between Tiger and Leopard. Leopard, overall, seems to have more Active RAM than Tiger, but, like vista, is more responsive as a desktop OS.

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spice003

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just kidding

hereonyourown

you can kill it by typing this into terminal:

if you want it back, do:

restart Dock after make changes

hope it helped

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The Hundred Gunner

Or just never click on Dashboard... It doesn't start up unless you click it once (each time you log in.)

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"But you would be amazed by how many people think that the only reason to have a computer is to play games, and that playing games is all that anyone with a computer does." - dangerousHobo

"Linux is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. " - mbp

"I have used a mac before. And they still don't have right click I mean come on. - aakar

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