At 10:47 AM -0400 3/18/2010, Bill Connelly wrote:
What are the other symptoms of this event? kp-s?
As the VM size grows, the OS has to allocate more swap files (/private/var/vm/). Safari et al will get slower and slower as the system starts to thrash (excessive paging of virtual memory to/from disk). Other apps could fail as you run out of disk space.
I haven't seen it cause a kernel panic. I would think that when Safari hits the vm limits (8 GB in a ppc mac), the memory allocation request will fail and the app will either complain or crash.
Is this just happening under Tiger 10.4.11? or Leopard 10.5.8, too? Or is this just a SLeopard happening?
I'm seeing it in Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard. The bug is in Safari 4 or the underlying WebKit. It occurs when using the latest WebKit nightly build. It seems to be much worse in Safari 4.0.5 than previous. It occurs in naked Safari, so while various inputmanagers and plug-ins (eg Flash) may contribute their own leaks, they are not the cause of this gigantic sink hole.
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