Memory leak while surfing Safari

Hi

those numbers aren't unusual, and don't cause problem for most -
assuming you're not actually so short of memory that 400MB causes you to run out of free memory.

I don't think it's Safari's fault. After update to 10.6.6 I've noticed problems with virtual memory. It takes all free hdd space no matter what soft I use. I use my macbook for internet (ff) and movies (mplayer). I didn't have any problems with vm before 10.6.6 update and now I have "Starup disk is almost full" dialog at least once for two days. I have to close all programs, wait a while, and then disk space comes back. I think there is a huge problem with 10.6.6

I have started seeing this exact problem with Safari also. It would go up to
600meg(out of one 1G), and eventually it would be beachball city, and I would
have to force Safari closed.
I upgraded to 2G, stopped using a specific webmail app with lots of ads
and thought the problem had gone away, but I now just noticed I am back
at 615m real, with only 3 tabs open.
Firefox and Camino never rise over 150Meg after days of usage.

This may have started with 10.6.6, I only started noticing recently.
Something to do with the App store?

I wish my Safari usage was ONLY where yours is at, but mine rises rapidly up to 3, 4, & even nearly SIX GBS! This is outrageous, and ends up slowing everything down. Even touching the page with my mouse brings on the "Safari not responding" & spinning ball! One Apple tech person told me it's an issue with Flash, and not an Apple issue. Well, maybe Apple needs to hook up with the Flash people and work this out, or find another program to use! What's the use of using software so buggy & energy ravenous???

soo..., if you disable Flash, is the memory usage sensible ?

andyBall_uk wrote:
soo..., if you disable Flash, is the memory usage sensible ?

If I disable Flash, I can't do much of what I want to do....
Plus, I usually use "Click to Flash" so it doesn't go active unless I manually click on it...

ok, I thought if it rocketed to 5GB+ you'd very soon see the difference, in a few minutes even.
I doubt it's Flash, but hoped it'd be swift for you to find out.... how long does it take to exceed 1GB, say ?

just a minute or two here, open a ton of tabs & whoosh, but it sticks at 500-800MB

andyBall_uk wrote:
ok, I thought if it rocketed to 5GB+ you'd very soon see the difference, in a few minutes even.
I doubt it's Flash, but hoped it'd be swift for you to find out.... how long does it take to exceed 1GB, say ?

just a minute or two here, open a ton of tabs & whoosh, but it sticks at 500-800MB

It doesn't jump right up to 5GB, it will begin around 1GB, then move on up from there, maybe over an hour to a couple or three.... It's odd that while it gets up that high, Opera will max at about 1.5, & Chrome about 2 or 3, but then jam up, same with Firefox, which is why it seems like Flash is a likely culprit, for why would the other browsers have the same thing happening? Yet Opera doesn't, but since I'm using the Beta, there are some other quirks, but high memory usage isn't one of them...

I see, that's a pain

if it were just safari, 32 bit might be worth a crack, but it's other browsers too.

If not already done, try right-click on Flash-settings-hardware acceleration.... uncheck that box

I imagine that you've already tried different flash versions &
trashed flash settings/storage ?

If it helps pin down flash as the cause - you can create a shortcut to open a page in opera via System Preferences-Keyboard-Keyboard Shortcuts-Application Shortcuts... hit the + button & add one just for Safari, with the command as follows (or whatever the name is in Develop-Open Page With)

Opera — /Applications

I wondered if you might be able to more readily load flash pages in opera & keep using safari, but free of flash for one session.

I've experienced this recently. I have a brand new 2011 15" MacBook Pro with the upgraded 2.3Ghz CPU and 500GB 7200 RPM and I noticed after a couple days of use my machine was slowing to a crawl. Naturally I was suspicious so I launched the profiler to check resource usage. I had been keeping about 5 tabs open and active in Safari. I had 64MB of RAM free out of 4GB. Safari was at 1.5GB of memory in use. The next closest application... 43MB. This is a HUGE problem. One that has turned me back to Chrome. After Chrome is running for several days with 10 tabs open my browser memory usage is 450MB...

This needs to be fixed for Safari to become a viable option again. Especially since you can't save open tabs when quitting Safari so they are re-opened on the next launch. BTW, why hasn't this feature been added yet when FireFox has had it forever and Chrome already has it and is much younger than Safari?

I am having the same issue. After 5 days my 8GB memory is all gone and only 40MB is free.
Safari and itunes are the only one running all the time.
This is not good.

Same here! Safari doubles in memory usage within an hour two even if you have the same number of windows open. Also, as for Flash...you can see the memory usage of the Flash player so am I to understand that Safari is eating more RAM internally for Flash?

I am also suffering from this problem. I have Safari open all day long and I run a lot of other programs. Safari is at the top of the list for memory usage by a long way. Over the last week it has got very bad, and seems to have got much worse with 10.6.7.

Apple, this is making your OS unusable, please fix it.