April 02, 2004
Memory

I upgraded the memory in my powerbook today, it is now a scrumptious 768MB, up from the standard and boring 512MB (came with a side of a leftover 256MB RAM chip).

I was hoping this might help with Safari performance. I should have known better.. I'm a programmer I know how these things work, yet somehow, against all logic and reasoning, I still hoped.

It helped -- now Safari takes up 648MB of RAM instead of the previous 400-something.

Great.


Is anyone even looking at this memory leak? It shows up when browsing sites that heavily rely on tables for layout use background-images assigned via css.

Posted April 02, 2004 11:26 PM in osx
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On April 2, 2004 11:30 PM kevin added:

Buddha once said "more += more"

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On April 2, 2004 11:58 PM David added:

Good luck! I find that it is not so much tables, but, well, just browsing. Strangely, other applications that use webcore don't seem to have the same problem.

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On April 3, 2004 12:03 AM fluffy added:

Are you sure it's not just over-relaxed garbage collection? Safari seems to maintain a huge object pool, but once it gets to a certain size it stops growing. And, of course, UNIX-style paging means that not all of that is wired RAM which is actually in use.

Though, yeah, 400+ MB is insane. Which makes me wonder, since it "only" takes around 161MB on my G4 (with 896MB of RAM).

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On April 3, 2004 01:09 AM kasia added:

Which version of Safari is that?

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On April 3, 2004 04:12 AM map added:

It's a bug with caching image patterns for e.g. backgrounds etc.
See http://www.dasgenie.com/scrap/archives/000054.html

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On April 3, 2004 09:18 AM david added:

Well, I think everybody has that same memory leak looking at taxes. Many people have the snapped, broken pencils to prove it.

Yes, that was a poor attempt to make a joke. I'm sorry. I moved the joke registers in my memory around too fast. I'll have to pop it off the stack into ax again and see if I can output it from there later on.

*grin*

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On April 3, 2004 10:48 AM Matt added:

Give Firefox a try. I switched when the latest release came out and have been very happy.

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On April 4, 2004 03:12 AM Luis added:

I ve experienced about the same after upgrading the system, poor safari performance and lots of (safari) hang ups. Just cleaned the object pool and dropped the older preferences (and only preferences) and it started to run fine, and no special problems.

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On April 5, 2004 04:44 AM Sam added:

File a bug with Apple.

Safari has a nice little "Report bugs" feature.

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On April 5, 2004 09:33 PM Jay added:

I never noticed this and I been running safari since I got my ibook (like 2 weeks ago).

On 10.3

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