MagiCal Bug Report
9 Votes
MagiCal 1.1r2 memory leak
- Type: Crash
- Version Tested: 1.1r2 (Intel)
- OS Version Affected: Mac OS X 10.6
- Status: Open
Description
Dear Charcoal Design,
I am sad to report a serious problem with MagiCal 1.1r2 and Mac OS 10.6.2. (I cannot comment about OS 10.6.0 or 10.6.1.) MagiCal has been a trusted part of my Mac experience for several years. I am sorry to have to remove it, but here's the reason why I must do so...
I noticed my two Intel Mac Minis developed inability to return to sleep normally. I also noticed the "Info" button (i) in the lower right corner of MagiCal's calendar did not activate the drop down menu. That reminded me of problems with MagiCal under Leopard OS a couple of years ago.
When I looked in my Console log on both Mac Minis I saw numerous warnings for Magical stating, "*** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0xc064df90 of class NSImage autoreleased with no pool in place -- just leaking." Six such Console warnings were reported every second.
Activity Monitor told me that Magical was using over 1% of my CPU cycles on both Mac Minis. Quitting and relaunching Magical eliminated the Console log messages temporarily and CPU usage dropped back down to 0.4% for a while. However RAM usage gradually climbed upward at 1/10th of a MB every few second, then Console warnings resumed and CPU usage gradually climbed back above 1%.
Removing MagiCal from my Mac Minis eliminated the Console warnings, and it returned both computers to normal sleep functionality.
I will be happy to volunteer myself as a Magical beta tester on my Intel Minis (10.6.2) and my PowerBook G4 (OS 10.5.8) if you would like.
Thank you so much for giving the Mac community years of wonderful software. I have no expectations regarding free or low cost software, but I feel our great software developers deserve constructive feedback when a serious problem manifests.
Respectfully,
MacHound
Submitted by MacHound at 9:08pm on 19 Nov 2009
Updates
I am experiencing similar behavior with MagiCal 1.1r4 running on Lion. There must be a memory leak.
Posted by Eliot Lash at 11:08pm on 12 Oct 2011
I am also experiencing a serious memory leak with MagiCal 1.1r4 running on Lion. It hasn't crashed or caused other things to crash, but I've got 8GB of RAM and I stop it before it takes it all. The first time I noticed the excessive memory usage it had climbed over 2GB.
Posted by Rick at 2:40pm on 19 Oct 2011
I too am experiencing the memory leak with MagiCal 1.1r4 and Lion. I believe the problem began when I upgraded the memory to 8GB, but it's possible the memory leak existed before but i didn't notice it when the computer only had 4GB since the memory leak might not have been as significant. Unlike the OP, I don't notice anything unusual in the console and my only warning is when I check the activity monitor and notice MagiCal is taking up more than 1.0 GB of memory, only exceeded by Firefox (which i have open with lots of plugins and use alot, so that shouldn't surprise me). I can quit MagiCal and it quits gracefully, so it doesn't look like a program hang, If my suspicions are correct, perhaps the problem lies in how it handles 8GB?
Posted by adrian sky at 05:15am on 21 Jan 2012
same problem for me with MagiCal 1.1r4 on Lion 10.7.3. MacBookPro w/ 6gb RAM. It will completely max out all available RAM. Would be happy to beta test fixes or other software if it helps you guys save time in order to devote to MagiCal
Posted by Paul at 8:47pm on 05 Mar 2012
I also experience the memory leak on Macbook i7 with Lion.
Posted by Brent at 12:39am on 25 Mar 2012