[svlug] Netscape memory footprints

[Bevan Schroeder]

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Michael K Vance wrote:

> Is anyone experiencing HUGE memory footprints from Netsacpe 4.5? I mean, I
> leave it on for four days, and it has a 96mb memory footprint eventually. Not
> to mention it consistently stores more data in my cache fold than it says it
> will.

I have yet to use a netscape 4* on linux that doesn't have a huge memory
leak.  The last one I left running didn't make it nearly four days (more
like four hours) before saturating the 64MB I had at the time.  Now I just
run ns4 when ns3 fails to load something correctly, then kill it and
return to ns3.  I haven't noticed a problem leaving it running on my
Solaris box though.

-bevan "oh, wherefore art thou, nglayout and gtkzilla?"


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