At the moment, Activity Monitor shows:

                                                 Real                        Virtual
                                              Memory                     Memory

Safari Web Content artie 0.0 301.2 MB Intel (64 bit) 341.4 MB 17091 6

and

Safari                      artie 0.3 147.9 MB Intel (64 bit) 223.3 MB 17090 11

My recollection is that "Web Content's" real memory usage always (Edit: greatly) exceeds "Safari's."

Last edited by artie505; 09/24/11 10:05 PM.
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