![]() ![]() I'm not familiar with the internal workings of Steam, but looking over the NSDistributedNotificationCenter reference (), my guess is that steam is either repeatedly calling - addObserver: or is posting notifications faster than the observers are consuming them. If you start and stop the same group of large programs over and over you will run out of memory on a Mac. I have been using Mac (and Linux) for years. These lines do not appear nearly as frequently if I quit Steam. If you kill all user applications, the sum of Inactive and Free memory should be nearly the same as a reboot. Running the terminal command sudo dtruss -p while Steam is running displays about a dozen lines per second which mostly look like: Since I've been leaving Steam running in the background, this adds up over a few days to gigabytes of memory, eating up both physical memory and eventually swap space. In particular, as long as Steam is running on my computer, the distnoted process (the distributed notification daemon) leaks a few kilobytes of memory per second. ![]() I've been noticing over the last few weeks that something keeps consuming my hard disk space and after a bit of digging it appears I have come across the (or at least a) culprit: Steam. ![]()
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