My Safari only takes about 35MB of real memory, about 1 GB of virtual memory (on disk) with a regular page loaded
I loaded two Flash games in tabs and it bumped up to only 136MB real and 1.08GB virtual.
I guess if I loaded 16 pages of Flash games it would bump up the real memory to about 800 MB or so and reproduce your conditions.
Assuming your memory issue is based upon real memory (the 4GB you mentioned) it sounds like your not paging to disk.
Is your hard drive nearly full? Check out Activity Monitor. This could explain it.
Have you used some sort of Safari enhancer to increase it´s performance? By not paging out to disk and keeping all of Safari in memory would increase it´s performance, for a price of taking up too much RAM.
Have you tried Safari Menu> empty Cache?
You can try something like Onyx and clear out everything, including Safari caches and see how that goes. Also something like Tinkertool might be able to disable certain things in Safari to help.
My Safari only takes about 35MB of real memory, about 1 GB of virtual memory (on disk) with a regular page loaded
I loaded two Flash games in tabs and it bumped up to only 136MB real and 1.08GB virtual.
How do you use virtual memory?
I guess if I loaded 16 pages of Flash games it would bump up the real memory to about 800 MB or so and reproduce your conditions.
NO games loaded. Nothing loaded. The bite into memory happens whatever I do.
Assuming your memory issue is based upon real memory (the 4GB you mentioned) it sounds like your not paging to disk.
Based on real memory, not virtual memory. I don't understand "paging to disk".
Is your hard drive nearly full? Check out Activity Monitor. This could explain it.
New iMac. HDD is about one quarter full.
Have you used some sort of Safari enhancer to increase it´s performance? By not paging out to disk and keeping all of Safari in memory would increase it´s performance, for a price of taking up too much RAM.
No Safari enhancer. Still don't understand "paging to disk"; please explain.
Have you tried Safari Menu> empty Cache?
Yes. It helps somewhat, but the memory bite still climbs. I've been trying Chrome today and it doesn't use memory like Safari does. Probably does have something to do with Flash, but I can't figure what.
You can try something like Onyx and clear out everything, including Safari caches and see how that goes. Also something like Tinkertool might be able to disable certain things in Safari to help.
I'm running Onyx right now. Maybe that will resolve the problem.
Started verify/repair permissions on disk0s2 Macintosh HD
Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x
Repaired "usr/share/derby"
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Finished verify/repair permissions on disk0s2 Macintosh HD
That warning looks scary. What can I do about that? Should I try to delete it?
EDIT: I deleted the RemoteManagement file. Nothing blew up. I'll keep it in the trash for a while. I ran Repair Permissions again and fortunately didn't get the error message. Does anyone know what that file was for?
Isn't this again one of those instances where Flash screws Safari? I would install Click-to-Flash, and see if that helps.
Unlikely as Flash is run in its own process thus its memory usage is not added to the parent process, i.e. Safari. But hey, it's hip around here to take pot-shots at Adobe whenever possible. Safari has been always a memory hog in my experience, although from my own tests a half a year ago the situation improved slightly. If you don't use any features specific to Safari I'd recommend Chrome. Recently they got rid of the unique identifier for each installation so it's more or less on the same privacy level as other browsers. Otherwise: Firefox. Best utility browser bar none but with worse system integration than Chrome.
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This has probably been discussed before, but I couldn't find it.
Safari uses more and more memory - about 800 MB out of 4 GB now.
Is there any way to keep down the usage other than rebooting Safari?
Thanx
Click2Flash?
I loaded two Flash games in tabs and it bumped up to only 136MB real and 1.08GB virtual.
I guess if I loaded 16 pages of Flash games it would bump up the real memory to about 800 MB or so and reproduce your conditions.
Assuming your memory issue is based upon real memory (the 4GB you mentioned) it sounds like your not paging to disk.
Is your hard drive nearly full? Check out Activity Monitor. This could explain it.
Have you used some sort of Safari enhancer to increase it´s performance? By not paging out to disk and keeping all of Safari in memory would increase it´s performance, for a price of taking up too much RAM.
Have you tried Safari Menu> empty Cache?
You can try something like Onyx and clear out everything, including Safari caches and see how that goes. Also something like Tinkertool might be able to disable certain things in Safari to help.
I loaded two Flash games in tabs and it bumped up to only 136MB real and 1.08GB virtual.
How do you use virtual memory?
I guess if I loaded 16 pages of Flash games it would bump up the real memory to about 800 MB or so and reproduce your conditions.
NO games loaded. Nothing loaded. The bite into memory happens whatever I do.
Assuming your memory issue is based upon real memory (the 4GB you mentioned) it sounds like your not paging to disk.
Based on real memory, not virtual memory. I don't understand "paging to disk".
Is your hard drive nearly full? Check out Activity Monitor. This could explain it.
New iMac. HDD is about one quarter full.
Have you used some sort of Safari enhancer to increase it´s performance? By not paging out to disk and keeping all of Safari in memory would increase it´s performance, for a price of taking up too much RAM.
No Safari enhancer. Still don't understand "paging to disk"; please explain.
Have you tried Safari Menu> empty Cache?
Yes. It helps somewhat, but the memory bite still climbs. I've been trying Chrome today and it doesn't use memory like Safari does. Probably does have something to do with Flash, but I can't figure what.
You can try something like Onyx and clear out everything, including Safari caches and see how that goes. Also something like Tinkertool might be able to disable certain things in Safari to help.
I'm running Onyx right now. Maybe that will resolve the problem.
Started verify/repair permissions on disk0s2 Macintosh HD
Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x
Repaired "usr/share/derby"
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Finished verify/repair permissions on disk0s2 Macintosh HD
That warning looks scary. What can I do about that? Should I try to delete it?
EDIT: I deleted the RemoteManagement file. Nothing blew up. I'll keep it in the trash for a while. I ran Repair Permissions again and fortunately didn't get the error message. Does anyone know what that file was for?
Isn't this again one of those instances where Flash screws Safari? I would install Click-to-Flash, and see if that helps.
Thanks. I downloaded Click to Flash, but I decided to forego Safari. Chrome seems to work well and it doesn't eat up memory. like Safari.
I wonder if SJ plans to replace Flash in Safari in the near future.
Isn't this again one of those instances where Flash screws Safari? I would install Click-to-Flash, and see if that helps.
Unlikely as Flash is run in its own process thus its memory usage is not added to the parent process, i.e. Safari. But hey, it's hip around here to take pot-shots at Adobe whenever possible. Safari has been always a memory hog in my experience, although from my own tests a half a year ago the situation improved slightly. If you don't use any features specific to Safari I'd recommend Chrome. Recently they got rid of the unique identifier for each installation so it's more or less on the same privacy level as other browsers. Otherwise: Firefox. Best utility browser bar none but with worse system integration than Chrome.