This is a little off topic, but I'm posting to Unsupported because I first noticed this on my unsupported BeigeG3, and everyone here seems more knowledgeable than elsewhere.
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
I've seen memory creep but haven't been able to pin point it to safari, and it only seems to creep to a common and regular level. I use B&W G3 with 384 MB RAM and typically have 95-100 MB free (after creep) irrespective of what combinations of applications I have open - this also includes apps like Indesign CS, Eudora, Illustrator 10, Acrobat 5, Word X (ptoowy!), Excel X (double ptoowy!!) and sometimes others as well at work. In fact, right now menu meters reports 125mb free with all of the above open - and I have just quit classic after using PageMaker (this seems to use memory faster - which makes sense)
Also my G5 at Home with 1gig of RAM (yeah boss is a tight one so won't upgrade my box) seems not to exhibit symptoms you mention and I usually put it to sleep rather than shutting down. I usually have ilfe suite running, safari, mail, and various other combinations of above but typically CS versions of Adobe and Pro version of Acrobat.
My older 9600 with Jag I haven't used in anger for a while so cannot report what happens on it.
Simon Brown
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