So it's Sunday and I don't have anything to do, so I'm still messing with this. I restored to 10.7.4 and everything worked as normal. I redownloaded a new copy of ML from the app store, installed it, and Safari was immediately junk. Web Content RAM climbed to 6GB used in about a minute. So I started thinking of how my mini was different from a stock one. Two things: intel 320 series 160GB ssd, and 8GB of RAM. The ssd is a b!tch to change, but the RAM is easy to get to. I reinstalled a clean ML, shut down and removed the RAM, waited a minute and reinstalled it, switching the slots. Safari is now working fine, and I'm reinstalling my most used apps and important data. This is weird. I'll keep this thread updated as to what happens next, if anybody cares.
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Safari using crazy amounts of memory!
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Update: It's been two full days and my mini is still going strong. Safari is working properly. Again, all that I did was remove and reinserted the RAM sticks. I had performed 3 full clean installs before this, and there was always a RAM creeping issue associated with Safari. Don't know if this actually makes any sense, but all I care is that everyting finally works properly. I even installed flash. Damn you ESPN.com and your lack of HTML5 video.
You should leave it unchecked until you visit a trusted site that needs it, for security reasons. Mac Virus/Malware FAQ
Why would you want to enable Java?
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- Launch Activity Monitor
- Change "My Processes" at the top to "All Processes"
- Click on the CPU column heading once or twice, so the arrow points downward (highest values on top).
- Click on the System Memory tab at the bottom.
- Take a screen shot of the entire Activity Monitor window, then scroll down to see the rest of the list, take another screen shot
- Post your screenshots.
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What about the rest of the processes? Delete "web" from the search box and sort by CPU with the arrow pointing down.
Looks like Chrome is using much more than Safari. I remember some have reported recent problems with Chrome, but I don't recall what they were, or if they've been resolved. You might consider using Safari for a while and see how it goes.
Virtual Machine
Its not the memory manager. If it was mainly the memory manager, it would have been fixed in Mountain Lion compared to Lion (EVEN WORSE memory hog). The main problem lies in the virtual machine. I think a lot of code is running in a virtual machine. How can you tell? If you launch something and it takes a long time and a spike in memory usage. Then close it and launch it again and it opens almost immediately, but the memory usage doesn't dissipate, then it is most likely a JIT virtual machine coded area that is causing the memory hog (and speed slowness).
Another way to fix it is if they start coding in assembly and C, and get rid of the slow bytecode like llvm IR and Objective-C that they left in I believe many pieces of Lion and Mountain Lion. We already have evidence JIT is in OpenGL (kinda stupid if you ask me... that is the portion used by GAMING!).
Its not the memory manager. If it was mainly the memory manager, it would have been fixed in Mountain Lion compared to Lion (EVEN WORSE memory hog). The main problem lies in the virtual machine. I think a lot of code is running in a virtual machine. How can you tell? If you launch something and it takes a long time and a spike in memory usage. Then close it and launch it again and it opens almost immediately, but the memory usage doesn't dissipate, then it is most likely a JIT virtual machine coded area that is causing the memory hog (and speed slowness).
Another way to fix it is if they start coding in assembly and C, and get rid of the slow bytecode like llvm IR and Objective-C that they left in I believe many pieces of Lion and Mountain Lion. We already have evidence JIT is in OpenGL (kinda stupid if you ask me... that is the portion used by GAMING!).
It's AdBlock!
The AdBlock extension has had a horrible memory leak issue for ages now, and I believe that's what many of you are experiencing.
If you've got AdBlock installed in Safari, try uninstalling it, restarting the browser and then monitor the memory usage.
This memory issue in Safari pops up over and over in these forums and it's almost always caused by the crappy AdBlock extension. I'm amazed that the issue still hasn't been fixed after all this time.
The AdBlock extension has had a horrible memory leak issue for ages now, and I believe that's what many of you are experiencing.
If you've got AdBlock installed in Safari, try uninstalling it, restarting the browser and then monitor the memory usage.
This memory issue in Safari pops up over and over in these forums and it's almost always caused by the crappy AdBlock extension. I'm amazed that the issue still hasn't been fixed after all this time.