Yep! Looks like you figured out which web site. Now switch Activity Monitor from RAM to CPU Activity and look for which processes are using those CPU cycles.
Easiest fix, don¡¯t visit that web site, but I understand why you might not want to do that.
Maybe someone can tell you how to diagnose what that web site is doing. Dennis, your thoughts?
Just a WAG, wild a?? guess. I have never heard of this kind of problem, so is something criminal going on by someone that might have hacked the site?
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Nov 21, 2024, at 15:53, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
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On Nov 21, 2024, at 15:12, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Maybe you should use less of their features or close their tab once in a while
(Referring to a tab in Safari using well over 10 GB of RAM).
To test this, I closed ALL apps with a visible UI on my Mac except Finder, and leaving only two websites open in Safari before quitting from it before rebooting the computer.
After rebooting, I just left the computer running for 15-20 minutes without launching any apps other than Activity Monitor. RAM in use remained stable.
Then I launched Safari, and the two previous websites, each in its own window, reopened, and while the RAM usage by those two single-tab Safari windows creeps up a bit, the increments are small. Then, i open a third window to the home page of the TV station. It starts out using a bit over 500 MB of RAM, and within 5-6 minutes it¡¯s consuming over 5 GIGABytes, while RAM usage by the two other windows (and the parent Safari process) has remained stable.
WHY this is happening, I have not a clue, but i cannot imagine it¡¯s by design.
Jim Robertson
Brent