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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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