Re: browser
- From: "Sourav K. Mandal" <smandal dichotomy dyn dhs org>
- To: matthew advantio com
- Cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: browser
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 02:43:07 -0400
>
> Here's a snapshot from `top` that I just took. This is typical of netscape,
> and it keeps getting worse the longer it lives.
>
> 16174 matthew 2 0 26920 26M 8516 S 0 0.0 21.0 2:54 netscape-c
> om
>
> That's 21% of my 128M, with a VM size of 26M. Add that to my applet and pane
> l
> fetishes and you're talking about some real memory. Pretty soon I'll have to
> restart netscape or it will get out of control.
I had the bug of growing memory consumption as well, but it
disappeared when I upgraded from 4.71 to 4.72; it has not reappeared
with 4.73. The reason I believe was that the statically linked
Motif routines included in the executable could not properly dispose
of all the pixmap data it had loaded; I hacked around that by
installed LessTif and using the dynamic executable included in the
4.71 distribution.
> Mozilla is worse. Maybe it'
> s
> the debugging code, but I doubt it. Netscape has behaved like this since I
> started using Linux, 3 or 4 years ago. Granted, I haven't tried the latest
> Milestone because I didn't see any resource improvements between the previous
> two. Is it better?
I downloaded the beta release Netscape 6.0pre1 (M15 w/ crap thrown
in) from the official Netscape web portal. It crashes, but
gracefully, and the memory consumption has been tolerable and
stable. "mozilla-bin" will consume about 20% of my 128MB RAM, but
there were only nominal increases when opening multiple windows,
which is a vast improvement on the 4.x series. I do not know enough
about the new Mozilla architecture to comment on why that is, and if
that's a good thing.
Regards,
Sourav Mandal
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Sourav K. Mandal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics
http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/
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