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safari a RAM hog on intel macs?
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What sort of resources are we talking about? What are the figures? Are you running it in Rosetta? 
Shamus said:
Yeah, but to the best of my knowledge you can choose whether to run it natively on Intel or under Rosetta, through Get Info. I don't have an Intel mac so I can't confirm this. However, I imagine running it under Rosetta would increase the workload.
I've seen it's Virtual Memory requirements hit 2Gb on my MacBook Pro! It often has hundreds of megs of real RAM. I think it has some memory leaks as it's usage tends to build over time. I simply quit and restart it every so often...
Try Firefox on the PC if you want to see memory leaks
especially if your connection terminates unexpected
especially if your connection terminates unexpected
DerChef said:Try Firefox on the PC if you want to see memory leaks
especially if your connection terminates unexpected
Interesting. I'm using FireFox on a PC right now. It's been running for around 3 days surfing as per usual. Memory usage at the moment is 85Mb. Not too bad.
Ah! Thanks for that! Didn't realise that!mad jew said:Yeah, but to the best of my knowledge you can choose whether to run it natively on Intel or under Rosetta, through Get Info. I don't have an Intel mac so I can't confirm this. However, I imagine running it under Rosetta would increase the workload.
My friend has had loads of problems with Safari on his 17" Intel iMac, it just keeps crashing, maybe this will help him!
After doing a lot of browsing on my MBP, I've seen it hit up to 125mb, but once you close Safari it goes away.
Gil_Grissom said:My friend has had loads of problems with Safari on his 17" Intel iMac, it just keeps crashing, maybe this will help him!
I'd get your friend to first Reset Safari from the Safari menu and if that does nothing, then maybe drag a file named com.apple.Safari.plist to the Desktop whilst Safari is closed. This is assuming there are no hacks installed in Safari, of course.
Most hacks only run on the PPC version at this stage (hence the usefulness of being able to choose which version of Safari to run) and can do pretty strange things to Intel versions of Safari.
It seems like Safari started to have some serious memory leak issues in Tiger. I'm not 100% sure if they're gone on PPCs with 10.4.5 or not. But I know that I've had to periodically quit and re-start Safari because, after a week or two, it gets bogged down. I'm not sure if it's just the same going on with the MBP or not.
There are some Safari plug-ins that are still only PPC code, right? When you use a Safari plug-in, such as Flash, if it were running under Rosetta, where would you see the RAM usage hit? Under Rosetta, or under Safari, or under Flash? I guess this probably isn't the issue, though.
I'm not sure if it's just the same going on with the MBP or not. There are some Safari plug-ins that are still only PPC code, right? When you use a Safari plug-in, such as Flash, if it were running under Rosetta, where would you see the RAM usage hit? Under Rosetta, or under Safari, or under Flash? I guess this probably isn't the issue, though.
Yeah, I have to quit Safari each night to prevent some bizarre behaviour. It's annoying, but not annoying enough for me to look into other browsers. The last weird thing to happen for me was that it wouldn't let me write in text boxes. The bizarre thing was I could paste from another app into text boxes here, but only after I'd clicked Submit once and been shown the "Not Enough Characters" page. It made for a less-than-spamalicious mad jew.
I know, you guys probably loved it.
I know, you guys probably loved it.
Thanks mad jew! I shall tell him!mad jew said:I'd get your friend to first Reset Safari from the Safari menu and if that does nothing, then maybe drag a file named com.apple.Safari.plist to the Desktop whilst Safari is closed. This is assuming there are no hacks installed in Safari, of course.
Most hacks only run on the PPC version at this stage (hence the usefulness of being able to choose which version of Safari to run) and can do pretty strange things to Intel versions of Safari.
Don't think he's put any hacks on. This was literally the same hour he had opened the box it was crashing galore!
I have an iBook G4 and Safari sometimes uses up to 200mb RAM. I don't think it's an issue with just Intel Macs.