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This is somehow unique to Safari, or bad? Has the author never used chrome or firefox? Right now I've got three tabs open in chrome and it's using 703 mb of ram
by justinph 15y ago
This is somehow unique to Safari, or bad? Has the author never used chrome or firefox? Right now I've got three tabs open in chrome and it's using 703 mb of ram between all the threads.
A modern browser will gobble memory. But it will also get paged out to disk when necessary, and that's not such a terrible thing.
- dpark 15y agoPaging to disk is pretty terrible if it's not strictly necessary. If your storage is an HDD, it can sometimes be faster to regenerate the paged information rather that read it back from disk. I don't know if Safari is actually causing memory contention here or if it's just aggressively caching while still playing nice. But if its cache is causing a lot of paging, that could very well be worse for performance than just reducing the cache size.
- smackfu 15y agoHow much of this is due to the separate process per tab model that is popular nowadays?