[Forrest]

Sorry, it helps to know Len Case is/was a dev on OW but his name is no longer in bold.

I was trying to point out that this subject gets brought up very often, but more often than not it's just a misunderstanding of how OS X manages memory. You'll see there was at least one leak in 5.5 in testing, but since then none have been found.

OW will use more memory than Safari because it has things like graphical tabs and workspaces. Unless you're finding that your free and inactive memory is hitting zero, there's probably not a problem.

For me, OW is currently using 715MB real and 1.94GB virtual. I've only got 86MB of free memory, but I have 1426 of inactive. I have 4.5GB of RAM, and for some reason I can never get it to actually use more than 3GB.