I have a Dual 1GHZ MDD with 2GB Ram running Mac OS 10.4 Server, with Safari 3.2.3 and activity monitor says its using about 2.2% of the CPU.
-Jonas On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Erik Hancock <ehanc...@concentric.net>wrote: > 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 > -- 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
