Logic has an appetite for RAM - but only this week

Question

Greetings.
I'm using the Mac Pro at work, so ignore my signature specifications.
This week Logic has completely swallowed my RAM, both on session with lots of tracks and plug-ins, and also on the light sessions where there would never usually be a problem.
A colleague installed the Sonic Birth plug-in last Friday. Could this have contributed to some weirdness?
Even without a session open, just the application running on its own, it's eating up 1.06 GB of real memory (according to Activity Monitor). This seems a trifle odd. I'm not running anything else out of the ordinary.
The Mac's specs;
2x 2.8 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
2 GB RAM
OSX 10.5.8
Logic 8
I am aware that 2 GB is not a lot of memory for a Mac Pro, however it's been running fine for the past 10 months so I don't believe that is the issue. If anyone can offer a suggestion, I'd be most grateful.

Answer 1

Macintosh Lou wrote:
Greetings.
Even without a session open, just the application running on its own, it's eating up 1.06 GB of real memory (according to Activity Monitor). This seems a trifle odd. I'm not running anything else out of the ordinary.
On my system both Logic 8 & 9 use less than 200MB real memory, even with my default project open, with no project open it's less. You're sure there's not something open in the background? Logic-8 does use about 1GB virtual memory, Logic-9 uses about 1.6GB virtual.
If you think the problem is Plugin related you can always move 3rd party plugins out of your components folder for testing.
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