[G5] Lack of Posts

[Philip J Robar]

On Jan 4, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Well, my basic thought on the subject isn't very constructive, and  
> that is that Memory Management on Mac OS X *SUCKS*!

Agreed on both counts. I've seen articles talking about how poorly OS  
X handles memory and other fundamental system management tasks. For  
instance, if I recall correctly, anandtech.com compared OS X and  
Linux on the same Mac and found Linux to be significantly faster.  
While the tests had their problems, I think they clearly showed that  
the OS X folks have some work to do.


> Having gotten that out of my system, one thing that I've noticed is  
> that Safari basically doesn't release memory, it just keeps  
> steadily increasing the amount of RAM that it uses, the longer it's  
> running. The only way to totally reclaim that memory is to quit out  
> of Safari.

Yup, Safari is a pig, to the point that I have stopped using it in  
favor of Firefox and maybe Opera. Helping me make the switch was the  
fact that Safari doesn't seen to handle AJAX enabled sites at all -  
at least the one that I visit daily.


Phil