The manual states the following: "Snapz Pro X is engineered to run invisibly in the background. It's a very low profile application that uses virtually no system resources until it's actually in use.".

I'm using a 20" Core Duo iMac, OS X 10.5.1. According to Activity Monitor, SPX uses a constant 0,4 percent of the CPU (or one core, at least) when idling. Not bad. But it also eats anywhere from 45 to near 70 megs of real memory, which is a bit much, given that no windows are visible and no capturing activity is taking place. Too much for me to support the "virtually no system resources" statement, at least. Is this level of memory usage expected?

Also, I've chosen not to launch SPX at login. Launching it from the Applications folder is trivial, but is there a cleaner way of quitting it apart from killing the process from Activity Monitor (since the red circle button only closes the active window)? If there is a quit button somewhere, I'm too blind or stupid to see it

Hello lifeless,
Sorry for your frustration. Pretty sure each system would show a slightly different amount of real memory being used. My Intel Mac Mini stays just over 10 MB. Honestly, not sure what would cause yours to use or show more.

The better way to quit Snapz is to bring it on screen and press Command-Q. This will quit the application entirely until you relaunch it again. Hope this helps

Do you think this qualifies as a bug? If so, could I provide some data (system profiler dumps etc.) that might aid in fixing it?



Thanks, that worked. Man, I could have sworn I tried Cmd-Q, but apparently I didn't. Oh well.

I agree with Lifeless regarding the CPU usage. It would be convenient to leave SPX loaded and ready to use. However, on my MacBook Pro 2.0GHz Core2Duo, it constantly used about 0.6% of the CPU (think battery life). SPX's CPU Time was on par with Finder. Why, if I haven't used it since my last boot, should it have used minutes of CPU time?

I won't claim to know SPX's method of implementation, but if it was possible to configure its polling interval, that would be nice. Thus we could customize its idle CPU load and responsiveness.

Thank you!

Hello Jeremiah,
I can certainly see your point. The only way to lower that would be to quit Snapz. You can remove Snapz from your login items in your Accounts System Preferences and launch it manually when needed. Hope this helps

Not sure, but it can't hurt to gather some more info. Please contact me via email at help@ambrosiasw.com and I try to get some more info (system profile, process sample, etc.). Thanks for your help!