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Why Safari's memory footprint is so big?
I have Safari eating up to 500MB if running for a long time. Is that normal?
It keeps using real memory of such a big sizes (according to Activity Monitor) even if I close all or almost all windows/tabs/pages.
Why it does not release the memory?
Is that possible to prevent this somehow, like disable cache in "Develop" menu (not sure this helps, but you, developers, should know better)?
The problem is my MBP has only 2GB and I use browser heavily + need to run several other hungry to memory applications like Eclipse.
It keeps using real memory of such a big sizes (according to Activity Monitor) even if I close all or almost all windows/tabs/pages.
Why it does not release the memory?
Is that possible to prevent this somehow, like disable cache in "Develop" menu (not sure this helps, but you, developers, should know better)?
The problem is my MBP has only 2GB and I use browser heavily + need to run several other hungry to memory applications like Eclipse.
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Inappropriate?Yes, that has been a problem for quite some time including the new version 3.2. Since Apple wasn't able to fix it in one of their usual bugfix updates the problem must be somewhere deep in Safari's architecture and not easily solved without rewritting Safari. I haven't been able to use the preview release of Safari 4 yet but my hope is that they will be able to fix this bug for the new major version.
I'm curious if this problem also occurs on the iPhone, since it only features 128 MB RAM, which would run out Safari Mobile in a couple of minutes.
