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September 30, 2003
Safari's Memory Usage
Does anyone have any idea why Safari uses so much memory after a few hours and lots of page loading? I've got people telling me it's using 106 megs, 116megs, 78megs and 64megs (I've asked 4 different people). Is there anyway to prevent such horrid usage? It leads to massive paging out very quickly if you are on an iBook with max RAM. If I could just get ahold of Dave Hyatt and ask him.   Posted by rosyna at September 30, 2003 09:04 PMTrackback Pings: TrackBack URL for this entry: Related:
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Dave Hyatt has a weblog for bugs and questions at http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/ Posted by: Michele on October 1, 2003 7:36 AMBut he takes comments only on his personal blog at: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dave/ However, you see how long it's been since he updated... Posted by: Joshua on October 1, 2003 7:58 AMI've found that it starts eating up resources if I'm downloading a large file or have downloaded a lot with Safari. The only solution is to relaunch it. Posted by: Phil on October 1, 2003 10:24 AMDave's personal blog has moved. Not that difficult to find though... (clue: an organisation of hyatts) Have you logged this with Apple? I've had mine open less than an hour at this point, and it's up to 95real/250virtual. Posted by: tmpchaos on October 2, 2003 5:58 AMWhenever I look at the Activity monitor, every page I go to adds some more data to the memory for Safari ( I had it up to 225mb!). It adds up the more pages you visit. I think it sucks. Posted by: D P on February 7, 2005 9:03 AMI just noticed the same thing. Page size is 433MB and RAM is 93MB. I had it up to 120 yesterday. I cleared the cache with activity monitor tunning and watched it drop by half. Still was large. I think there needs to be a pref to set the size of RAM cache. I don't care if it dumps a page that I viewed 2 hours ago.l Posted by: Griz on May 26, 2005 8:02 AMI just checked my girlfriend's Powerbook and Safari had 1.2Gb of virtual memory (and 140Mb physical) - no wonder it was going *so* slowly! Posted by: Bubb on November 17, 2005 12:24 PMIt's definately leaking memory. Here's the output from top:. Virutal memory 2.98G! PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE i tend to just put my computer to sleep without shutting down, and safari is normally something i just leave open. this morning my computer was going slow, i checked the memory usage, and safari was using over 500MB of real memory!!! i quit it, and then all was well again. Posted by: stuzza on March 11, 2007 6:06 PMwell, i figured out something better, by minimizing the safari browser, u get the temp reducing of memory usage to quite a lot! Posted by: OS X on January 25, 2008 11:04 AMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated. |