Safari memory leak?
I just bought a MacBook Pro a couple weeks ago, and I'm using iStat Pro on my dashboard to keep up with all my stats. I've noticed lately that Safari will eventually consume quite a large amount of ram, like say 200+ mb. When I completely close safari from the dock, it will free up a lot of ram, then if I re-open the browser, it's memory usage is back to what it should be. I don't notice that it effects performance in any way. But I don't have any games or anything that really works the computer hard enough to notice.
Does anyone else have this problem? I do have all the updates installed.
Does anyone else have this problem? I do have all the updates installed.
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While certainly it can be more efficent to use as much memory as possible, the trade off here is there is more swaping to VM.
Theorically everything is intelligent enough to know what you want to work with in real ram and vram, but alas that's not possible.
So you will get a performance penalty for swaping, when you suddenly decide to work on something in VRAM.
Lot of times it has come up, but hey, it beats the old OS9 way, though performance wise manual ram alocation can't be beat.
Safari does mess up sometimes, so you do need to quit out of it every so often like most webrowsers with plugins and all that.