Re: tlug: netscape-glibc

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Scott> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Totoro wrote:
>     >> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> > > I'm using the glibc-built Netscape 4.06 - I thought the old
>     >> one was a > memory leaker.. this thing is up to 13MB of memory
>     >> usage (from 9MB) in > less than four minutes - is it just me,
>     >> or has anyone else seen this?
>     >> 
>     >> Only 13?? Jeez, mine STARTED up at 13 MB. Try going to a page
>     >> that has java on it, and watch this sucker go! Mine jumped from
>     >> 14 to 21 just on opening the page, and it keeps climbing. Looks
>     >> like this one needs some help...
> 
>     Scott> I guess so... it does crash less than the libc5 version,
>     Scott> though.  Although the libc5 version doesn't eat RAM like
>     Scott> this..
> 
> I mind me of the time I started HotJava.  Started at a nice reasonable 
> 8 MB.  After forty-five minutes, I killed it.  125MB of VM, I only had 
> a few odd bytes left here and there unused---it was about to kill me.
> 
> Java's garbage collection philosophy is um, wasteful, I think.

Could be.  But even without Java, Netscape still eats and grows, eats and
grows.

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