> I've noticed Safari feeling lethargic recently, not sure if it's the same > thing. Usually when its been open for days with large number of tabs, > windows, and real-memory usage is 1GB+ > > ... > > Usually a restart of Safari fixes things. > > I just can't seem to accept that 4GB is a small amount of RAM.
For what it's worth, I have much the same issues with Firefox. Steady growth and increase in memory usage that only goes away with a restart. And no, 4 GB is plenty. I remember when Mac OS ran in 8 MB on a 68040 and still displayed the web just fine. Heck, generally faster :-). === Wanna know what's odd? I have a significant increase in responsiveness by keeping virtual memory turned OFF for as long as possible. I don't run com.apple.dynamic-pager.plist at system start -- I have a watchdog script that keeps an eye on the available memory, and runs it when things are tight. Firefox becomes a lot more responsive with dynamic paging turned off. And, there's only three programs I use that even trigger VM on my 1 GB G4. The other two are games. 4 GB is plenty of memory. You should not need that much. -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
