Safari allocating too much RAM? What is the deal here!?

[alexreich]

Does anyone know why this is happening? or what could I be doing to cause this? It's ridiculous!

Btw, I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.7 on a 2010 Mac Mini.

-Alex

 

[alust2013]

That's perfectly normal. I'm on firefox with 6 tabs and it's at 406MB.

 

[-aggie-]

Seriously, that's nothing. I'm usually running around 1 Gb. Safari is known for being a memory hog.

 

[alexreich]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

Ah alright. The new RAM I have finally needs to be installed I suppose. Haha. My Mac Mini 2010 still has 2GB... Not for long.

 

[alexreich]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

Btw I had 2 tabs running.

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Safari always has been and most likely always will be a huge memory hog. Not uncommon to see it gobbling up 2GB if you have a good amount of RAM in your system.

 

[Modernape]

Web Browsers and other modern Apps use more memory than they used to, as the features included have increased compared to 5 years ago. That's why we have more RAM installed on systems these days. Don't worry about it.