Why is Safari "seems swapping" like ****?

This is really annoing, and continue from Safari 3 to the 4Beta also. When i open Safari and starting to navigate it start devastating my HDD like it is swapping the ****. The HDD seems read/write randomly (infact you can ear the heads of the drive doing so much noise as they can). The things last 20 second or even more and all the system is totally unusable. The RAM use is very low and half of the memory is still free, so OSX isn't swapping at all, and also the CPU load is low.
It seems i can solve for some days, by empty the browser cache. Any idea on how avoid this?

thanks a lot. that worked! (the terminal command)
well soo far, (ive check the exact same website and i can now see all the fonts)
thanks again!

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ckpeck wrote:
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The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
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Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually login automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
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Ok - I have exactly the same problem. I can run safari and use it. After a short while it becomes slow and unresponsive. When I quit I get the rainbow ball of death and the only way I can stop the application is to force quit.
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I have 32GB memory on board but even so it doesn't take long for Safari to gobble it up.
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Help.
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You forgot to mention what version of Safari you have, but:
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(Presumably you regularly empty your Safari cache by deleting the following file:
Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/cache.db
and clear your History)
Adding Open DNS codes to your Network Preferences, should give good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security, (including anti-phishing and redirects) (Full information about Open DNS is here: http://www.opendns.com/home/nobloat ) and further independent information can be read here:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57338784-263/free-dnscrypt-tool-enhances-ma c-web-security/?tag=mncol;txt
and here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1146064/troubleshootdns.html?t=234
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208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2296
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408?viewlocale=en_US
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defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false
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killall -9 WebKitPluginHost
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However, I may be ignorant on this matter but I was a bit paranoid about possibly my account info going 'thru' these servers. So I figured, why in Gods name would those IP addy's have anything to do with Safari working or not, considering all the other system specific instructions you gave to fix Safari.
I just assumed OpenDNS is simply an 'option' to maybe speed up the internet a bit.
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Message was edited by: Mike Stand
Message was edited by: Mike Stand

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