Flash is killing Safari, which is leaking memory ...

I just saw in Activity Monitor that the Flash plugin is using 147% of the CPU, with one Flash movie playing in one of 12 open Tabs
And Safari seems to leak memory as well, after a day or two it easily can use up to 3GB(!) of RAM.
I am now quitting Safari routinely every 2 to 3 hours to get the CPU usage down and free RAM for other stuff, but I don't think this method makes for a great user experience.

Hi,
Use ClickToFlash... that way you have control of Flash content.
http://clicktoflash.com/
Carolyn

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I was hoping against hope that Safari 5.01 would address the memory leak that seems to have come back with version 5.0. If I leave Safari running and some of the pages have Flash webparts, Safari ***** up memory and in no time close to 2 GB or more get consumed. Maybe it's Adobe playing a joke on Apple because of Jobs hostility to Flash, but it's getting annoying having to constantly quit Safari, relaunch it, and then have it restore the last set of accessed pages. The issue seemed to have been resolved in the later versions of 4.x (or at least it seemed so to me).
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I have had this same problem for a number of months, maybe more than a year, and I agree that Safari Stand is at least one major culprit. I just disabled Stand and when I launch Safari and then close all the windows, I no longer get the "World Leaks" message that I had been getting. (This error message is enabled in the Debug menu for those who have added that menu.)
I also ran some tests. I opened about 15 tabs and Safai memory only grew to about 300 MB. When I close Safari, independent of how many tabs are open, I appear to lose about 15 MB of free memory each time so there seems to still be a memory leak, but now it is very small. I will keep watching for a few days because typically I have had to reboot every couple of days or so when my invisible swap files grew above 1 or 2 GB and the beach ball was ever so pervasive.
For those who switched to 64 bits and back to 32, the problem may have been some other add-on because Safari Stand supports both 32 and 64 and shouldn't have been affected.
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Is there anyway to kill Flash ads in Safari 4 on pages such as Youtube? Because every day when I browse onto Youtube there is an ad that hangs the entire browser. Not just Safari 4 but every browser! It's incredibly annoying! HELP!

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Safari 5 hogs memory up to a point where it slows down the whole system and provokes freezes by the dozen -- on my system with 4 GB of RAM no other software is as often "unresponsive" as Safari.
Safari's memory usage starts with about 150 MB real memory (plus the same amount in virtual memory) and after some browsing gobbles up to 1 GB (Firefox and Chrome never exceed 120 MB). Then all other open programs as well as the Finder slow down to a crawl.
I haven't installed any plugins or extensions other than those loaded with the standard Safari installation. I use ClickToFlash to avoid Flash content. And I also go regularly through all the motions like permission repair, cache emptying (which I do several times a day), Onxy etc.
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I experience this memory problem too, but since a few days only. I never registered Safari using that much memory before, however it managed to fill my whole 4 GB of RAM several times in the past days.
I tried to apply the classic advice you get in online forums, like permission repair and cache emptying, but these measures could only delay the problem. Deactivating the extensions "adblock" and WOT didn't help.
Moreover, I originally bought a mac in order to not need to do such work anymore...^^.
Is there any further advice available on this subject, else than getting back to using firefox (I really like the speed and appearance of safari)?
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I also noticed after rebooting from update that iSync logs messages like the following in console.log:
2007-08-09 05:54:54.180 SyncServer[3857] A Sync Server is already running on this computer, exiting process.

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My uptime is now 3days 20 hours -odd coincidence.
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So, I don't know if I would expect Apple to already believe that there is a problem needing to be fixed. Really, don't think anything in this forum can be considered "common." For a core function of the OS, the Spotlight forum is now one of the quietest of all the Tiger forums- only one that sees less action is UniversalAccess.
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Jorth, maybe we are not well explained,
the normal operation of imapd process(one process) need no more that 200MB, when a user is linked to it.
Check my example:
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PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
874 root 610M 421M sleep 59 0 0:14:51 0.1% java/160
818 webservd 413M 285M sleep 59 0 0:16:43 0.3% webservd/95
607 root 326M 45M sleep 59 0 0:07:01 0.1% webservd/58
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798 root 237M 37M sleep 59 0 0:04:04 0.1% ns-slapd/48
*16673 mailsrv 220M 97M sleep 59 0 0:00:06 0.0% imapd/6*
*16677 mailsrv 210M 42M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% imapd/5*
*16696 mailsrv 205M 36M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16695 mailsrv 200M 38M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/6*
*16685 mailsrv 197M 38M sleep 59 0 0:00:08 0.0% imapd/5*
*16682 mailsrv 195M 40M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16681 mailsrv 193M 46M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16690 mailsrv 187M 52M sleep 59 0 0:00:03 0.1% imapd/6*
*16687 mailsrv 187M 40M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% imapd/5*
*902 icsuser 185M 24M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% cshttpd/2*
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78 mailsrv 2439M 2329M 28% 0:11:53 0.5%
14 icsuser 1064M 233M 2.8% 0:06:55 0.0%
136 root 965M 727M 8.9% 2:15:20 50%
1 webservd 264M 326M 4.0% 0:16:43 0.3%
1 noaccess 90M 100M 1.2% 0:01:13 0.0%
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When we run an aplication like OutLook to copy locally to the laptopn all the mail via IMAP, "ONE imapd process" eat more memory that need it and never released.
Example:
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PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
*16673 mailsrv 2856M 2534M sleep 59 0 0:00:06 45% imapd/6* <---------------this process eat memory and slow the system(CPU/RAM)
874 root 610M 421M sleep 59 0 0:14:51 0.1% java/160
818 webservd 413M 285M sleep 59 0 0:16:43 0.3% webservd/95
607 root 326M 45M sleep 59 0 0:07:01 0.1% webservd/58
16719 mailsrv 283M 50M sleep 59 0 0:00:06 0.0% imapd/5
798 root 237M 37M sleep 59 0 0:04:04 0.1% ns-slapd/48
*16677 mailsrv 210M 42M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% imapd/5*
*16696 mailsrv 205M 36M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16695 mailsrv 200M 38M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/6*
*16685 mailsrv 197M 38M sleep 59 0 0:00:08 0.0% imapd/5*
*16682 mailsrv 195M 40M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16681 mailsrv 193M 46M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16690 mailsrv 187M 52M sleep 59 0 0:00:03 0.1% imapd/6*
*16687 mailsrv 187M 40M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% imapd/5*
*902 icsuser 185M 24M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% cshttpd/2*
NPROC USERNAME SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
78 mailsrv 2439M 2329M 80% 0:00:5 0.5%
78 mailsrv 2439M 2329M 10% 0:11:53 0.5%
14 icsuser 1064M 233M 2.8% 0:06:55 0.0%
136 root 965M 727M 8.9% 2:15:20 50%
1 webservd 264M 326M 4.0% 0:16:43 0.3%
Total: 237 processes, 1042 lwps, load averages: 1.91, 1.90, 1.89
===================================================================================================
The rest of the imapd process(29) in this moment just load 40-50MB(when those are free).
If we kill the process 16673 the user connect to the next imapd process and the problem persist whit the same patology: eat memory and CPU, and slow the system.
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We will to test the 64Bit version in this moment and we will post the results.
Thank
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Two bugs, one affecting Apple's Mac platform and another attacking Microsoft's Windows, exploit certain Flash player vulnerabilities to install malware onto users' systems, reports ArsTechnica. While users of other operating systems like Linux have yet to report attacks, Adobe's advisory notes the exploit affects all platforms.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5660
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You should uninstall any previous version first, and repair permissions after installing the new version.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5271
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