OW using WAY too much RAM

[johnathan spectre]

One thing I'll say is if you are used to applications in OS X having OS 9 sized memory partitions you need to rethink things. Applications under X suck up a lot more RAM due to all the extra bells, whistles and graphics of X. Windows cost a lot more in RAM usage and CPU time to draw, don't think Aqua comes cheap. 100M of RAM for OmniWeb to render  a few web pages beautifully is nothing. Think Netscape 4.x would render them as well in 1/2 the memory and not bug? Let's add in the advanced features of OW and that it's not some 1/2 baked "carbon" app.

Unix as well handles memory far different than OS 9, which is a good thing, right? A lot more libraries, shared memory usage, better virtual memory handling, etc.

Anyway, for people unfamiliar with unix in general and are just playing with top, vmstat, or any of the countless memory monitors please remember you are using a whole new operating system underneath. MacOS X itself requires a lot more than the 128M Apple "suggests" for best performance. IMHO you should have no less than 256M, better off with 512M or 1G of RAM and RM is pretty cheap these days...

To the OmniWeb crew, keep up the good work. You have to be the only development group I know of to offer so many "sneaky peeks" to the general public and I hope the feedback you're getting from us is useful. I've participated in many beta programs over the years and I'm liking your un-offical beta test the best.

-js