300 Mb (bytes) was free space avail on disk - info from in finder windows and activity monitor - After clean up went to 8+ GB - Installed flash blocker and reopened all windows and it is at 7.7 GB right now. So yeah I had over 8 Gb in disc cache - that seems unusual.
Yes the system is 10.4.X fully updated - was just shorthanding to distinguish from 10.5 and 10.6. Not sure if there is any difference in how they work on this particular point. Act monitor is on 2 sec calcs - so not really spiking - just seems to be all those damn flash ads running in the background of non active pages. Thanks Erik > From: Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: "g3-5-list@googlegroups.com" <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com> > Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:44:39 -0500 > To: "g3-5-list@googlegroups.com" <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Safari Using up Disc Space > > At 12:01 AM -0500 12/25/2009, Erik Hancock wrote: >> Was at 300Mb now at 6.58GB after shutting down browsers and >> restarting. That's quite a big cache - will try to reopen sites >> and shee what happens. > > 300 Megabits? > > From where are you getting these numbers? > >> In activity Monitor - about 102% of Cpu goes to the Browser - not >> sure how that happens. > > Change it to update less often. The usage calc when not averaged can > include spikes. > >> Left off the machine info since I thought that was extraneous. > > The devil is always in the details. Apps behave differently on > different machines and OSen. > >> G4 AGP/1.5GHz/ 2MB ram/OS 10.4/ Safari 4.04 > > Just 10.4? Not fully updated? > >> No real add-ons for safari - Sometimes use Firefox with ad blocker. >> Any other reccomendatiosn for add-ons? > > I use ClickToFlash and SafariBlock. The former puts Flash under > control immediately. The latter an older/grumpy inputmanager, that > will block any url you feed it. It comes with a massive list, that I > find slows things down, so I just have it use my own short custom > list. > >> I usually have 10 or so pages with multiple tabs. I also tend to >> leave the app open rather than closing and reloading frequently - >> but it happens about one a week due to app freezing - now think it >> is due to lack of HD space - which seems odd for this app to be >> using so much space. > > If you were dealing with just Safari, then leaving it running for > such a long time would be fine. But you're not. There be Flash > here. And Flash - besides chewing memory and cpu even when > supposedly "idle", has some serious memory leaks. The only way to > clear the leaks is to quit the browser now and then. > > FWIW, > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
