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Safari 5.1 Memory Leak in Lion
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I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 on a MBP 15" 2011 and my iStat widget says I have a 4GB swap. I have Safari, iTunes, VLC and Text Edit open. Is that a high amount of Ram to be swapping?
Since I upgraded to 8gb, something really interning happened: no memory hog anymore. It's not because I'm plenty of ram, it just not happened anymore.
This issue lacks completely a modus operandi. Not to mention it is unpredictable.
If you open a lot of tabs and then close them, the memory from those tabs are still kept by Safari. Therefore, those stats really says nothing about a potential "leak" as you don't state for how much you had been running Safari before.
Anyone else hot terrible html5 performance on lion ? I've had to switch back to flash videos on youtube, because it's not possible to watch videos with html5. Sometimes it does not buffer at all or the video just stops playing while audio keeps on playing.
And when I'm on battery watching videos on vlc I get this strange memory leak, I guess. While the video is playing I try to open safari jumps start my cpu load to 100% and it stays like that until I shut safari down.
Hopefully, lion 10.7.2 will fix these issues.
And when I'm on battery watching videos on vlc I get this strange memory leak, I guess. While the video is playing I try to open safari jumps start my cpu load to 100% and it stays like that until I shut safari down.
Hopefully, lion 10.7.2 will fix these issues.
"Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage" is in the release notes at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4922 (About Safari 5.1.1 for OS X Lion) 
Although your drive must be really slow if paging out causes the system to _crawl_
I downgraded to Snow Leopard a week after I upgraded to Lion but Safari still sucked in terms of memory usage. I have been using Chrome for the past few months but just upgraded to Safari 5.1.1. It seems a little faster but it is still a memory hog. It's been open for 2 or 3 hours with 7 or 8 tabs and between Safari Web Content and Safari there is almost 1GB of ram being used.
I disagree. I've noticed a marked difference in Safari's memory usage on 10.7.2.
Ditto here -- Lion 10.7.2, Safari 5.1.1, no software updates to install.
I have 8 GB ram on a 15" 2.3G i7 MacPro with the FreeMem app running. Everything is fine. I can have a dozen Safari pages open with a few gig free. THEN, I load ESPN.com "Watch Live" to check out a game (using Flash). Memory will slowly start leaking (maybe 100-200 meg in a few minutes) then suddenly just consume everything that's left. I quit the page and 5-7 GB (yes "G"Byte) is freed up.
I even restarted and opened one 1 app, Safari, went to the ESPN page, and proceeded to watch that one screen consume 99% of the 8GB on my machine...
Fortunately, the death-knell of Flash sure seemed to be rung this week. Hopefully it will go away and something superior replaces it (HTML 5?).
Me too, about total 700mb for FB, Google Reader, some other text websites.
But with chrome, it cost me >1.3 GB, maybe because of my extensions.
But with chrome, it cost me >1.3 GB, maybe because of my extensions.
With the recent update Memory Usage does feel a tad better, not entirely fixed though. Google Chrome uses less memory, but I don´t like that it adds its updater in the startup item list and messes up the process list by creating an own process for each tab. Safari provides the better usability for me.
Any time Safari goes bad blame Adobe and Flash.
I don't have flash installed.
My computer was grinding to a halt this morning, and I discovered Safari Web Content was using 4.5GB of RAM.
I too am finding that I'm using Chrome more and more. With the recent virus stuff going on - I was very interested to hear that Flash is sandboxed within Chrome. If I use Safari and need Flash - I simply drag the URL onto the Chrome icon and carry on in Chrome.
I wish. I run with plugins off, specifically because Flash sucks CRU. But I'm still getting the memory bloat and beach ball lockup after using Safari for more than a day or two on a MacBookPro 4GB Snow Leopard uptodate with plenty of disk space. Safari is just being a pig. Quit and reopen frees up the memory and then Safari runs fine, for a while.
Ironically, Safari used to be the best browser. On my PowerBook G4 under Tiger I ran for weeks without any slow down or the need to quit or reboot.
Apple is going down hill. Too much focus on consumer gadgets and not enough focus on getting things right and keep up compatibility.
If safari is even running with one tab it causes the windowserver to stop responding regularly on my machine....
Initially I had thought it was adblock, but it's still happening... this is the log output which accompanies the 15-30 second spinning beach ball.
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[88] kCGErrorFailure: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Safari" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
Jun 15 19:13:49 [88] disable_update_likely_unbalanced: UI updates still disabled by application "Safari" after 15.00 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds). Likely an unbalanced disableUpdate call.
Jun 15 19:14:06 [88] reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Safari" after 31.32 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
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I'm guessing someone has already submitted a bug report so I won't bother, I just started using this machine again.
Initially I had thought it was adblock, but it's still happening... this is the log output which accompanies the 15-30 second spinning beach ball.
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[88] kCGErrorFailure: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Safari" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
Jun 15 19:13:49 [88] disable_update_likely_unbalanced: UI updates still disabled by application "Safari" after 15.00 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds). Likely an unbalanced disableUpdate call.
Jun 15 19:14:06 [88] reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Safari" after 31.32 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
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I'm guessing someone has already submitted a bug report so I won't bother, I just started using this machine again.
Safari uses also a Sandbox for all plugins, including the Flash Player plugin. Next argument please!