Holy Memory Hogs

[LightMast]

Firefox is just chewing up memory on my new i7...only with 4 tabs open (forums and gmail).

Then there is the launchd tearing up about 375 constantly. Window server is hovering around 175-200 as well.

Any ideas?

 

[Intell]

I've never seen launchd take up that much. Firefox yes, but only with 7+ tabs open. iTunes... well it's just bloated from the start.

 

[LightMast]

itunes is backing up and updating my iphone 4, so I expected it to be eating resources.

 

[wordoflife]

Thats normal. I tend to have about 1/2 GB on browser resources.

 

[Corndog5595]

the firefox coders need to learn how to dealloc objects


This is only 5 minutes of browsing. I imagine running firefox for an hour or two would result in a large amount of memory leaks.

 

[LightMast]

I've killed and reloaded firefox. Is Safari any better? Is there something equiv to adblock for safari?

 

[Corndog5595]

safari is better about memory leaks, but still takes up a good amount of resources. It isn’t as slow as firefox though.

and yes, there is an adblock extension for safari (I am using it right now).

 

[Reelknead1]

My safari is taking up 490mb currently. I haven't restarted it in probably a week.

I think its time to restart the computer, but out of 2gb I still have 350mbs free.

 

[LightMast]

Turns out it was the StarCraft II downloader beating my machine to death.