Re: OmniWeb memory usage

At 2:29 PM -0700 9/14/06, Zach White wrote:
>  > I've been trying to figure out why, with 1.75 GB of RAM, my Mac often
>>  has 6 or more swap files and hundreds of thousands of pageouts,
>>  neither of which seems reasonable. In Activity Monitor (sort by the
>>  memory columns), OmniWeb is the largest RAM hog, claiming 209 MB of
>>  real memory and 1.10 GB of virtual memory.
>
>These numbers are normal, and are nothing to worry about. This issue
>has been coming up periodically as long as I've been on the list, and
>checking the archives it seems that it's been coming up even longer. :)

Ah, since before I was using OmniWeb, even... I can see it using lots 
of RAM when a lot of tabs are open, but shouldn't it come back down 
after they're all closed? If OmniWeb holds on to over 1 GB of VM, 
that would seem to cause a lot of other apps to have to page 
themselves in and out of memory.

I'm not really bothered by the high memory usage; what is bugging me 
is the performance slowdown when there are a lot of pageouts.

cheers... -Adam

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