On Nov 6, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Jack Carbaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > Facebook is a safari killer. if left open, it will bring down a system. And > by bring down I mean, make it so unresponsive that the only option is a > forced reboot via power button. It happened everyday on my other half's clean > system, until i set up automatic log off. (He could never remember to just > close the tab.) > > > > On Nov 6, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Uli Kusterer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 06.11.2012, at 16:08, Alex Zavatone <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Actually, that's not always the case. As I use Safari through out the day, >>> Safari ends up eating 6 to 12 GB of data on my 16 GB system. Frequently, I >>> need to issue a purge to get back a spare GB or few hundred MB. Plus, if >>> you're booting off, or have your swap file on an SSD disk related >>> performance penalties will be much less than if using an HD to hold the >>> swap file. >> >> >> Err ... if I understand correctly, you're nuking the caches used by the >> system and other applications to compensate for the problem that Safari, >> when left open, leaks like a sieve ... ? Those two things are orthogonal. >> >> Cheers, >> -- Uli Kusterer >> "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." >> http://www.masters-of-the-void.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/intrntmn%40aol.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] >
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