On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:13 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: > (Why is this library thing important? Each process that opens the library > has the space charged against the VM even though there is only one copy of > the library in memory with library code being shared across all processes > that use it)
Not disagreeing, but it's a bit hard to believe that Safari would need to map more and more libraries ad infinitum to the tune of 3GB+ worth of shared address space. And even harder to understand why it can never relinquish any of it, even when all windows and tabs are closed. Keep Safari up long enough, it becomes slower and slower as the VMSIZE value increases until it exceeds the process VM limit. When Safari is running this fat, manually closing a window can take minutes (and pegs the CPU while doing so). _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
