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Safari 5.1 Memory Leak in Lion

I think the memory leak is a big issue. I've done some testing, and i found out that just 6 tabs over failblog.org network would create a memorypocalipse and the browser just refuses to work, giving me plenty of beach ball and complete page redraws (just linke on the iphone, where memory is short and after some tabs it would reload every one after switching between them).

Oh, I have to mention that I'm running the 64 bit kernel.

You can check it out on the printscreens.





 
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PeterHolbrook said:
Have you guys considered that the entire OS is a little slow after installing it, while Spotlight builds its indexes? I'd bet that would explain a good deal of what some of you have described.
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No, Safari and iTunes are the only slow things on my Mac. iTunes, I am used to it but Safari I am not and will not because of it's purpose.
 
I've found one case in which Safari eats up my memory.

I am using several extensions and also I set up the default zoom level using user style sheet ( body{zoom:110%;}).

Everytime I visit 9to5mac.com, the memory usage starts going up. I could solve the problem by either disabling extensions or removing the part in the style sheet that sets the zoom level but I want both.

After examining safari console under the developer menu, I figured out that it was caused by Facebook's like button. I am no expert on javascript but there were a bunch of warnings related to it. So I installed another extension that blocks face book's like button and now everything is fine.

If you have any problems with safari's memory usage, I recommend you to check out the error console in Safari.
 
Hey guys, I just figured out what the problem is.

Under Safari's Preferences > Security, disable JavaScript

After this, with all 6 tabs open, it stays at just ~145mb of safari's internet content.
 
fernando.kreutz said:
Hey guys, I just figured out what the problem is.

Under Safari's Preferences > Security, disable JavaScript

After this, with all 6 tabs open, it stays at just ~145mb of safari's internet content.
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Removing functionality isn't a fix. Doing so would kill my access to numerous websites I visit quite often.
 
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fernando.kreutz said:
Hey guys, I just figured out what the problem is.

Under Safari's Preferences > Security, disable JavaScript

After this, with all 6 tabs open, it stays at just ~145mb of safari's internet content.
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Thanks, I´ll be trying that. Also make sure you have enough hard drive space available.
 
Maybe not Safari

I'm wondering if the problem isn't just related to Safari

I can boot my computer up and it's using 1.3gb of memory straight away
I can leave it alone and do nothing, come back to it some time later and memory has just been eaten away.
Like now, was reading about leaks, went away for an hour, came back and another gb had been eaten when nothing was open

Can anyone else confirm this??
 
I've not noticed any memory leaks with Safari. With quite a few tabs open and having had the program open for a while, things are staying relatively constant. Sorry to hear some are having problems. =/
 

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fernando.kreutz said:
Hey guys, I just figured out what the problem is.

Under Safari's Preferences > Security, disable JavaScript

After this, with all 6 tabs open, it stays at just ~145mb of safari's internet content.
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I think this is it, because ToS can get bloated, JDownloader becomes a monster, and Safari bloats only some of the time. This could be a Java issue, not Safari itself.

I'll stress test this on various computers and configs and see if I can't contribute anything narrower. Thanks much.
 
NeverEnuf81 said:
I think this is it, because ToS can get bloated, becomes a monster, and Safari bloats only some of the time. This could be a Java issue, not Safari itself.

I'll stress test this on various computers and configs and see if I can't contribute anything narrower. Thanks much.
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Javascript and Java are not related technologies.
 
NeverEnuf81 said:
I think this is it, because ToS can get bloated, JDownloader becomes a monster, and Safari bloats only some of the time. This could be a Java issue, not Safari itself.

I'll stress test this on various computers and configs and see if I can't contribute anything narrower. Thanks much.
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If that were the case, it would be seen regardless of browser. This is a Safari issue.
 
8g ram, and it's paging with 2 apps open! wft!

Mac mini early 2010, 8Gig Ram

Something is not right for sure.

I reboot
I open Mail and iTunes,
6.7Gig left

Come back 6 hours later. 50meg left in Ram, kernel_task has grabbed 900 on it's own, Mail has 92meg and iTunes 156meg.

Umm where is the rest leaving me paging like crazy ...
 
I checked my Activity Monitor a few minutes ago as well and Safari was consuming almost 2GB of memory. I've had my laptop running Safari for about 5 hours this evening and I had 2 tabs open (Facebook & Google Plus).

I quit the application and reopened it to resolve the issue but good grief!:confused:
 
move on to chrome guys.....i moved on early, wasnt really happy about it but now i feel it was a good choice, its snappy/simple/works without any fuss, saves me alot of ram which i put into more useful apps such as photoshop!
 
CapnJackGig said:
Removing functionality isn't a fix. Doing so would kill my access to numerous websites I visit quite often.
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It is not a fix, is a workaround. After disabling it, the memory leak issue is resolved, with the withdraw of losing some functionality. Whenever you need it, just enable it, like I do with clicktiflash.

This is just until it is fixed with the next update (if it has already been addressed). This way you don't need to move to a different browser.
 
fernando.kreutz said:
Hey guys, I just figured out what the problem is.

Under Safari's Preferences > Security, disable JavaScript

After this, with all 6 tabs open, it stays at just ~145mb of safari's internet content.
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Are you serious do you have any idea how much of the Web makes use of Java Script. Try disabling it and then going to Forum Spy on this site.
 
It's much easier (and better) to just go back to Chrome. Especially now since Chrome Canary just added two finger swipe support.
 
Safari: v5.1
Tabs Open: 6
Extensions Used: 2
Java Enabled: Yes
Memory Used: 406.9 MB
 
my entire 4GB of ram was completely used because Safari was using 1.5GB on its own, its not the Ram Safari is using, it is the Safari WEB content that's taking all the memory, its only been 5 minutes since I quit safari and reopened it and its already crept over 300MB.
 
Safari Web Content for me is also using nearly 2GB of RAM and I only have a handful of tabs open - not any using flash, either.

I downgraded from 10.7 to 10.6 and this problem still persists.
 
safari using 382mb and web content using 1.25gb...got 8gb so not too fussed but surprised it's getting so high...
 
CapnJackGig said:
If that were the case, it would be seen regardless of browser. This is a Safari issue.
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It is outside the browser for me in addition to the browser itself. As I posted, JDownloader will take over RAM too pretty quickly till it's down to a few MB. ToS allows me to define its RAM limits though.

The weirdest thing is, none of this is relevant with my old C2D MBP...just on the new one. I have 2580MB free out of 4GB no matter where I go with Safari in OSX Lion on my old lappy.
(Any intensive hard drive use takes the RAM in short order with an SSD...unzipping a huge file and muxing metadata into an mp4 and whatnot will take me down to virtually no free RAM right away.)

I think we need to consider how hardware drivers interact with processes Safari uses.
 
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if you guys post your memory stats, please also post the time that has lapsed since Safari has been completely quit out of. to me, it seems you can only have one tab open and just surf for a few hours but you'll get the same leak.
 
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