On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:19 PM, Bill Williams wrote:
Usually, when our 3 Macs (all PPCs running 10.4.11) slow down it means
time to do some housekeeping, general cleanup, and clear out what
we've
been to lazy to discard earlier.
Under 10.4 and in particular Safari 3.x and earlier, I've found if you
leave Safari running for too long without quitting it, Safari will
eventually go haywire and start chewing up massive amounts of RAM for
no reason which drags the entire machine to a crawl as it spends all
its time dealing with swapping RAM.
I learned to quit Safari at least once a day.
So far under 10.5 and Safari 4.x I've not seen the same problem come
back (although on one of my Macs that I upgraded from 10.4 to 10.5,
Safari 4 crashes all the time when trying to read RSS feeds. I've no
idea why, although I assume there is probably a corrupt plugin. I've
not bothered to really hunt it down as I plan to wipe the machine soon
anyway to give it to my mother. I can't use it any more as I need to
run a program that requires 64 bit and the one in question is my
original Intel iMac and thus has the 32 bit only Core Duo processor
instead of the later 64 bit Core 2 Duo.)
-chris
<www.mythtech.net>
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