Flash plugin using 212MB of RAM???

Is this right? With the limited amount of RAM on my 11.6" MBA(and no possibility of upgrade) I am concerned about RAM usage...



I can't believe how much RAM Flash Player is using... Can someone else confirm this?
Thanks

 

Well, are you doing something that is using flash in your browser?

 

I only had one Safari tab open with Notebook Review... there are some flash ads (i think) going on but thats it...

 

You could use Firefox together with the Flasblock add-on, or something equivalent for Safari (if it exists).

 

first... update to the newest Flash Player if you haven't... second.. flash can eat up a ton of memory. It sucks.... up the memory.

The last time I installed Flash it stopped listing that "Flash Player" entry in Activity Monitor for some reason, yet Flash still works fine...

 

Never mind... after I came home from work and restarted Safari Activity Monitor is showing a much more bearable ~64MB for Flash... something must have gotten hang up.

BTW I do have the latest version doh123 since the MBA doesn't ship with Flash preinstalled.

 

I use Firefox on Windows which runs Flash (and anything else) in "Plugin-Container", and to my surprise, I'm only using 12MB right now. I think I've seen it get fairly huge like that before though too, just probably depends on what's running. Like try to stream video and it probably gets huge.

 

That's flash for you, it will slowly eat more and more memory until you restart your browser.

 

you never know where people go to download things... some get things from their favorite download sites and sometimes get older versions..

 

I don't know if it leaks or not...wouldn't surprise me, but I've had my notebook on all day and the plugin container is only 17MB.

 

Thanks... you were right... had 2 versions of Flash installed...
I had used Migration Assistant when I first got the MBA(had older version of Flash with that backup) then having known Flash is not included I went ahead and installed the latest version... both were loading concurrently causing major memory usage...

+rep

 

Its 2010, you own a mac. You probably have 8GBs of memory, 212MB is nothing, its like 2.5% of your total ram.

 

did you read the thread? its a stock 11" MBA with 2gb of ram... thanks for playing!

 

How did you find this out? I don't see a "Flash" app in Finder other than the Uninstall tool.

I am planning to buy an MBA 11" but have never used Migration Assistant. What is the advantage of going this route rather than...say... copying the /Users/<name>/Documents?

PS: I am planning just reinstalling all the apps, so I get a fresh OSX install..

 

Yeah, I'd recommend just doing a fresh install and copying personal files over. Those transfer methods tend to be flaky, and then you're stuck starting over after the fact, so...

 

Go to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins in both your root and home directories. If you have more than one "Flash Player.plugin" in any of the two directories you may have the same issue...

The advantage of Migration Assistant is the "ease of use" and by no means does it beat a clean install...

 

I've had Safari open all day...

right now, Safari + WebKitPluginHost = > 2GB of RAM.



what the hell.

 

Looks like a huge memory leak in safari or flash. Upgrade to 4GB man

 

First, use Software Update to ensure that you have the latest version of Safari. If you keep encountering unusually high memory consumption, then I'd recommend using a different browser. As I mentioned earlier, Firefox together with the Flashblock add-on would likely solve your problem.

Also you cannot upgrade the RAM on the new MBAs as the RAM is soldered to the motherboard. Source: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5910&p=2

 

That sucks you cant upgrade the ram, 2GB in 2010? And you gotta buy apple ram to upgrade to.

Id use chrome cus firefox 3 is slower than safari. The only good version of firefox is minefield.

 

I actually have 8GB or ram. and all my flash files are the most recent. that's crazy, huh? that was about 45 minutes after watching an UStream broadcast. I shouldn't need to have 3GB of RAM available to keep my browser + flash happy.

I've tried Opera, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

They all have pros and cons. the only thing keeping me from using Chrome every day now is...you guessed it...the flash integration. when watching a UStream broadcast (or any other live event being streamed with Flash), the CPU simply has to work harder than with any other browser. And it's not a small difference. We're talking 2x-3x more CPU than Safari, Opera or Firefox use for the same video streams. And somewhere between 15C-25C more heat. I looked at a stream once yesterday in Chrome and looked up and saw my CPU well over 90C! I had to turn my fans up high just to drop that down to a reasonable temperature range. Never an issue with other browsers.

If Chrome can fix that, it'll be my primary browser. If not, I'll just have to open one of the other or something when it's time to stream a video.

 

Does Chrome have 3 finger swipes for home and end yet?

 

add those yourself.

Google BetterTouchTool.

then wonder how you've owned a Mac so long without it.

 

Yeah I'm starting to prefer Minefield over Chrome, plus Chrome adds you to a Google controlled botnet to mine data.