I got some new RAM to bump my BeigeG3 from 420 MB to 768 MB. To my surprise, it actually seemed slower than before. Thank goodness that I was using MenuMeters and had a memory usage readout. With only Finder, Mail, and Safari running the memory usage had eaten up everything. I closed them one-by-one and it appeared that Safari was the bulk, but still the System itself was still retaining too much. Upon restart everything was back to normal. I checked on my iBook w/320MB. Most of it was used, and only Safari and RealOne were running, so it wasn't just an unsupported problem, and Safari was the only common application.
It seems that Safari must have a huge memory leak somewhere. After the reboot I see the memory usage creeping upward 1 or 2 MB at a time with only Safari running. It looks like it would take just a day or two to eat up everything. I'd suggest to anyone using Safari that they get a memory monitoring utility. If your computer seem slow, perhaps a reboot will speed things up. I tried just logging out and back in and the used memory wasn't recovered, it took a full reboot to recover it all.
Kris Tilford
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