On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:25 AM, objectwerks inc wrote:

> 
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Jared Earle wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jonathon Kuo 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Aug 9, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
>>> 
>>> > 4 GB is plenty of memory. You should not need that much.
>>> 
>>> How rude... the new Safari was approaching 2.5 GB of VM, then it blew. Bits 
>>> flew everywhere. Looks like it still suffers from 'VM bloat'. I've tried 
>>> this before, closing all windows and emptying the cache, but Safari 
>>> jealously holds onto all the VM it can -- and never reuses it. Load a new 
>>> page, and its VM size increases still more. Something's wrong 
>>> architecturally, methinks...
>>> 
>>> VM isn't that big a deal. my VM is currently at 220GB:
>>> 
>>> PhysMem: 879M wired, 1424M active, 172M inactive, 2475M used, 9813M free.
>>> VM: 220G vsize, 1042M framework vsize, 83722(1) pageins, 0(0) pageouts.
>> 
>> I think that's total VM usage across all processes:
>> 
>> PhysMem: 787M wired, 4734M active, 1514M inactive, 7035M used, 1156M free.
>> VM: 291G vsize, 1040M framework vsize, 516579(0) pageins, 486(0) pageouts.
>> 
>> I meant only the VM used by the Safari process, VSIZE:
>> 
>> PID    COMMAND      %CPU TIME     #TH  #WQ  #PORT #MREG RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  
>> VSIZE
>> 403    Safari       21.4 03:06:48 20    2    1065  7065  515M   219M   810M  
>> 15794M
>> 
> 
> Also irrelevant.  If you understand how VM works.  All the system libraries 
> that Safari has open count against the VM total for Safari, for example.  
> Whether or not they are actually loaded.  IIRC
> 
So why does Safari blow when its VSIZE gets too large?

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