Safari eating RAM

appleXcore · Nov 8, 2006

after a few hours of use Safari and Audium are useing WAY TO MUCH ram

about 200MB EACH. Is there any setting to adjust or something i need to do to keep them from running up my memory?

MattSharp · Nov 8, 2006

appleXcore said:
after a few hours of use Safari and Audium are useing WAY TO MUCH ram

about 200MB EACH. Is there any setting to adjust or something i need to do to keep them from running up my memory?

Don't know, but I have the same problem with Safari and have seen other people talk about.

appleXcore · Nov 9, 2006

a simple fix it to close Audium and Safari , but that can be agervating if you have 4 or 5 tabs open.

fyrman22 · Nov 9, 2006

Safari is using 478MB right now on my machine. Not sure if this would help but if you closing safari then this program I have will reopen your safari window tabs and all its called forget me not.
http://math.uchicago.edu/~fowler/Software.html
edit: just tried it on my machine and knocked the memory used down to 48MB

appleXcore · Nov 11, 2006

i couldnt get that program to work.

appleXcore · Nov 25, 2006

I did my ram upgrade today and well Safari is using 300MB of ram as we speak with only tabs. Is that NORMAL?

appleXcore · Nov 25, 2006

nvm, "the leak" was just explained to me.

locoender · Nov 25, 2006

what "leak"?

schweb · Nov 25, 2006

Safari seems to have a memory leak. The longer it's running, the more memory it uses. I just occasionally close it and re-open it.

jram · Nov 25, 2006

This is how the so called memory leak was explained to me, Safari and Firefox use memory according to the memory installed on your machine. If you have 2 Macs with different amounts of memory you will see the memory usage different even with the same programs open.

dolphin01 · Nov 25, 2006

I have started a new thread on my issues with my ibook being slower than my emac at home. I have safari on my ibook and Camino on my eMac. I'm wondering if Safari is the problem with the SLOW loading on the ibook??
My ibook is much newer than the eMac and has more ram etc.... - being slower just doesn't make sense.
It doesn't matter if I close the ibook and re-start either. It's just slow.

brianj08 · Nov 28, 2006

Safari is a big Ram hog, you should add a 1 gig stick and you would be all set. that is what i noticed as i have recently made the upgrade myself. now my macbook FLIES