Really high memory usage in Safari?

[rdf8585]

After a couple hours of browsing, mostly with 1-2 windows or 1-2 tabs open, Safari's memory usage is consistently 300-400 MB and one time I even had a slew of pageouts on my activity monitor .... the only time I've ever had pageouts. I know sites like espn.com, mlb.com, and youtube.com probably increase memory usage b/c of the flash content...... but 300-400 MB? I can live with 100-200 MB (which is what Firefox uses on my system) but 300-400 MB seems quite out of control.

Any remedies?

 

[daveL]

After a couple hours of browsing, mostly with 1-2 windows or 1-2 tabs open, Safari's memory usage is consistently 300-400 MB and one time I even had a slew of pageouts on my activity monitor .... the only time I've ever had pageouts. I know sites like espn.com, mlb.com, and youtube.com probably increase memory usage b/c of the flash content...... but 300-400 MB? I can live with 100-200 MB (which is what Firefox uses on my system) but 300-400 MB seems quite out of control.

Any remedies?

Safari caches aggressively. Either clear your cache or quit Safari and start it up again. Unfortunately, there isn't a memory cache preference.

 

[mad jew]

I reset Safari every now and then to keep this sort of behaviour at bay. I haven't actively tested how well resetting helps, but it seems to help a little bit.

 

[ipacmm]

I reset Safari every now and then to keep this sort of behaviour at bay. I haven't actively tested how well resetting helps, but it seems to help a little bit.

I agree, I do the same thing every few weeks. It does help out a lot and speeds everything up.