[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 17148] Large WebKit memory footprint(?)

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17148





------- Comment #2 from mrowe at apple.com  2008-02-02 03:27 PDT -------
>From email:
> Thanks for your reply. I am not a programmer. I'm a WebKit enthisiast.
> WebKit version is 29907. Memory creep happens under all versions I have
> used over the past two years.. Safari RSIZE varies between 100 - 200 mb.
> VSIZE is from to 350 - 500 mb. Memory stays consistent using top, but
> I see that it's the only app that creeps higher and higher so that free
> space is used up to the bare minimum. Tested with many other apps
> including audio, video and graphics production apps. WebKit/Safari
> has memory creeps and eventually uses up all your free ram.
> That's the only way I can explain it.

I don't think that 100 - 200MB is overly large.  A bunch of things are cached
in memory to improve performance, and the memory figures you mention are
consistent with what I would expect given the cache sizes used with 1.5 - 2GB
of RAM.  I wouldn't expect it to negatively impact the performance of your
machine either, as if the memory is unused it would simply be paged out when
the system is low on memory.

> I'm just curious, what language is safari/webkit coded in?

C++ and Objective-C.


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