At 6:35 PM -0700 5/3/2011, Jim McGee wrote:
Well, after some weeks of tracking Safari's relentless grab of
memory allocation, I discovered that it seems to have been fixed.
Was this fixed in 5.0.5 ?
If so, it wasn't immediately apparent upon installing the 5.0.5
software update two+ weeks ago. Yesterday I fired up my dual MDD (2
GB ram) as usual and checked Safari's bloat with the result showing
that the memory usage was low and on quitting Safari the allocation
was released back to the free memory.........
Some of the leak in Safari is fixed. Ditto WebKit. But Flash still
has problems.
Realize also that much of the bloat of Safari is not leak - it's
intentional. Safari is busy caching things in memory, creating page
previews, etc. If you enable the Debug menu, then you can select
"Show Caches Window" ... some interesting insight there as to what's
going on.
FWIW,
- Dan.
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