Safari Consuming All CPU Power

I just recently noticed that Safari seems to be taking a lot more processing power while browsing.
When I click on a link, the fans start spinning faster, the little colored wheel cursor appears and I can see in Activity Monitor that the CPU usage for Safari goes to 100%.
This happens every time I click on a link. It even happens if I hit the back button. It happened while I was typing in the post, since My Yahoo web page automatically refreshed on another tab.
As you can see, I have a dual Power Mac G5 2.5 GHz with 4.5 MBytes of memory.
This just started happening yesterday. I've never seen this before. From my previous PC days, I would say that I picked up a virus or some kind of Spyware.

Over the last several weeks, I too have been noticing Safari taking up more system resources than it had in the past. I upgraded to Tiger the day it came out (from 10.2) and only began noticing this problem in early August. Not only have I seen an increase in CPU usage when running Safari, but I've also seen an increase over time of RAM usage. When I restart, RAM usage is under 30% with iCal, Address Book, iTunes, Mail, NetNewsWire, and a weather app running. Later that day after having browsed and done many other actions with only those basic apps running, RAM usage stays at or slightly above 50%. It often pegs out at 65% and again after restarting and re-opening those apps back up with the exception of Safari, RAM usage remains far below 50%. With my meager 800mhz processor, and all the memory leaking and CPU hogging going on, the fan is running much more frequently than it should.

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user11095479 wrote:
i have installed a oracle database 11g and Apex in a vitual machine, I start the virtual machine and also database services start, but after three minuts the consume of CPU for oracle.exe process it grow much until cosume the 100% of CPU
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>i have installed a oracle database 11g and Apex in a vitual machine, I start the virtual machine and also database services start, but after three minuts the consume of CPU for oracle.exe process it grow much until cosume the 100% of CPU
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