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Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:47 pm
#1798800
An odd problem has started to manifest itself on my fairly new Mac Mini, whereby Safari gradually reports using more and more memory until such point that the 'Force Quit' panel pops up with a 'You need to close some applications' and Safari will shut itself down.
The odd thing is that in Activity Monitor, whilst Safari may be showing it's using tens of GB of memory, the overall memory usage is staying sensible as per shown below in the snips taken at the same time of the top and bottom of AM:
(Yes, I know 8GB isn't very much, but I refuse to pay Apple prices up front for memory that I can add myself much more cheaply later when I need it
).
There is little I can find of recent vintage about this particular issue on the Interweb, but I have found a YouTube dating from about three years ago, which demonstrates effectively creating a new a version of Safari by deleting lots of stuff from various Library and App support folders, and relaunching Safari when done. I'm hesitant to try this without some validation that it'll work. I don't fancy the hassle of having to do a complete reinstall to the current state if things go awry.
I'm running Catalina 10.15.7 (latest update applied just today) with Safari 14.0.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated (Safari's reported memory has gone up to 49GB while I've been typing this!)
The odd thing is that in Activity Monitor, whilst Safari may be showing it's using tens of GB of memory, the overall memory usage is staying sensible as per shown below in the snips taken at the same time of the top and bottom of AM:
(Yes, I know 8GB isn't very much, but I refuse to pay Apple prices up front for memory that I can add myself much more cheaply later when I need it
).There is little I can find of recent vintage about this particular issue on the Interweb, but I have found a YouTube dating from about three years ago, which demonstrates effectively creating a new a version of Safari by deleting lots of stuff from various Library and App support folders, and relaunching Safari when done. I'm hesitant to try this without some validation that it'll work. I don't fancy the hassle of having to do a complete reinstall to the current state if things go awry.
I'm running Catalina 10.15.7 (latest update applied just today) with Safari 14.0.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated (Safari's reported memory has gone up to 49GB while I've been typing this!)
Last edited by GrahamB on Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
GrahamB
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Not specifically about Safari though.
