Anyone else notice Safari eats up a ton of physical memory after it's been open for a while? I was trying to boot up Windows through VMWare Fusion and kept getting an error. Checked how much free memory I had and sure enough, only about 60mb. Looking through the activity monitor I noticed Safari using up 560mb of physical memory. Isn't that a bit, or actually extremely, excessive for a web browser?
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Safari memory leak?
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I have been noticing this too recently. It sucks to have to close it all the time, but my MacBook boots it up again in only a second or two so it hasn't hindered my surfing too much.
Ok I don't know much about how memory works on a Mac yet. But I do know that right now Safari is taking up 430 MB of Real Memory. I have 2 gigs in my MacBook and it only has 132 MB free.
Safari has always had a few memory issues. I quit it each night to ensure things don't get too out of hand, and that works well for me.
Remember that memory management in OSX is a bit complicated, to say the least. If you have plenty of RAM available (inactive and free), then it's not uncommon for a process or app to take up a large amount of it on a may-as-well kind of principle. When it's at the expense of other programs, then something's not right as is the case here.
Remember that memory management in OSX is a bit complicated, to say the least. If you have plenty of RAM available (inactive and free), then it's not uncommon for a process or app to take up a large amount of it on a may-as-well kind of principle. When it's at the expense of other programs, then something's not right as is the case here.
therwise, i get the never ending blue barber pole or Doom.
Safari always runs smooth for me, though it does chew a fair bit of memory, which is a shame since i like to keep dozens of tabs open for days.
I have also noticed that when i change some of the preferences, like turn cookies on or off, it often does not work. When i go back into preferences a few minutes later i find that it is back to the previous setting.
Minor gripes aside, i still much prefer Safari over Firefox.
I have also noticed that when i change some of the preferences, like turn cookies on or off, it often does not work. When i go back into preferences a few minutes later i find that it is back to the previous setting.
Minor gripes aside, i still much prefer Safari over Firefox.