How does WoW manage Addon Memory?

[Deleted]

Hey guys, uh i was wondering how WoW manages Addon memory? Does it save it to my Ram? or onto the harddisk?
cuz everytime i get over 60mb of addon memory i start lagging.... no idead why, most times its cuz recount uses allotta memory when i forget to reset it.

Or when i want to try one of those fancy ui with bartender and stuff i'm lagging too.


My system:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
8gb ddr2 ram
2x 1tb hdd 1x500gb hdd
gtx 470

[daphoosa]

Addon information should be stored in the ram while playing. You should not be having problems with addon memory usage.

I have 8GB of ram as well and I've had no problems with a previous setup that would use over 120MB during raiding.

[Mr_Bojangles]

Check and make sure it is actually the act of going over 60mb that is the issue, and not that it's a specific addon. Unfortunately, there really aren't a whole lot of troubleshooting addons (heh). Make sure all your addons are up to date, and run bug grabber as well, and see if it is reporting any errors.

[Oerba Yun Fang]

I'm at 120mb (even higher in raid situations) all the time with 8GB of ram and I have no problems.

[Taryble]

Memory usage of addons does _NOT_ matter. It's CPU Usage. You probably have an addon that's going crazy on CPU usage.

There are addons designed to measure CPU usage of other addons - WoW allows CPU Profiling, but there's nothing in the base UI that can display cpu usage, which is why addons are needed to measure it.