RAM usage on iMac M1
Posted: 29 Jul 2022
Hello everyone,
My name's Fran Velasco from Seabell Studio, first post here, loving Kern-On!
I have an issue with the plugin: every time I try to launch it, after a couple seconds while it still says "Starting up..." the RAM usage goes up to 48-50GB (my iMac has 8GB of ram). I'm using Glyphs v3.1 and Kern On v1.15.
Apple M1 chips use the integrated hard drive as RAM when the dedicated one is full, I guess the issue is its usage by Kern On seems unlimited. Never happened before on my previous 8GB Macbook, much slower than this one.
The fonts I'm working on for this project are very limited character-wise: A-Z with diacritics, 0-9 and around 20 punctuation glyphs. Only 110 in total. As a reference, previous fonts with same character set on the other computer took around 30 seconds to kern (around 2 seconds a couple days ago when it still worked on the iMac), creating 2-3000 kerning pairs.
How can I solve this?
Thanks!
My name's Fran Velasco from Seabell Studio, first post here, loving Kern-On!
I have an issue with the plugin: every time I try to launch it, after a couple seconds while it still says "Starting up..." the RAM usage goes up to 48-50GB (my iMac has 8GB of ram). I'm using Glyphs v3.1 and Kern On v1.15.
Apple M1 chips use the integrated hard drive as RAM when the dedicated one is full, I guess the issue is its usage by Kern On seems unlimited. Never happened before on my previous 8GB Macbook, much slower than this one.
The fonts I'm working on for this project are very limited character-wise: A-Z with diacritics, 0-9 and around 20 punctuation glyphs. Only 110 in total. As a reference, previous fonts with same character set on the other computer took around 30 seconds to kern (around 2 seconds a couple days ago when it still worked on the iMac), creating 2-3000 kerning pairs.
How can I solve this?
Thanks!