Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Mark Panzer wrote: > > > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > Nelson Posse Lago wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: > > > > > > > > > While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after two > > > > > hours. I have 32Mbytes of RAM and a 50Mbyte swap. > > > > > > > > Netscape for linux leaks memory like hell; you may want to install > > > > netscape using the debian installer package, it preloads (or used to, > > > > don't know if this is the case still) some libraries tha alleviate (but > > > > don't solve) the problem. There's not much more you can do about it. I > > > > *think* what really kills memory fast are animated gifs, since it > > > > actually "reloads" the gif indefinetely, so "ESC" should help also. > > > > > > > > See ya, > > > > Nelson > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > That's Internet! > > > > > > > > "The future? I've seen the future: It's a 46 years old > > > > virgin singing 'I am a hotdog'" - From "Demolition Man" > > > > > > > > > > How can this be? If NS ran out of memory after two hours of use > > > it would > > > affect everybody. Yet this is the first post concerning the problem, and > > > in > > > all the time I've used NS on linux its only happened once (I was doing a > > > lot > > > of stuff in the background at the time). It may be related to the version > > > (professional/standalone) or maybe something else thats running at the > > > same > > > time. > > The thing is the only way I seem to have enough free memory to run > > Netscape is to be the only person log-in an account and the only > > programs running are shown in myproc.txt which is attached. Right now I > > have 12MBytes of RAM free and am not using the swap but wait maybe 20 > > min. even if I don't do anything and it'll already be using about 20Meg > > of my swap. That seems weird because I have my memory cache down to > > 100Kbytes and disk cache to 1Meg. > > > > Mark Panzer > > > > That does sound weird. I have 32M ram + 70M swap, running 2.0.34 > kernel, > using glibc version of NS v4.05 professional. After logging in to X, I then > logged in to 2 other consoles and ran dselect and mc in them. Its hard to > tell what's going on by the output of top, but at the beginning of this > session, top showed all mem in use but no swap. After about an hour and a > half, including mail and browser activity, it has released ~1M of RAM but is > using ~8M of swap. As soon as I end the apps in the consoles I get ~5M of > ram back (free), for a max change of 2 to 8 meg of used memory. That isn't > much of a change, and seems reasonable given what I was doing. I have > certainly never seen the kind of effects you are seeing (like using 20M of
I'm about ready to use a big profanity because I had a really nice message worked up to reply but then netscape mail used up all my memory and quit blowing away about 25 min of typing a message. Anyway attached are the results from ps and free at about 5 min before it wiped out all my communicator apps I had open (dumping all the text I had typed !!!!). Someone asked if I had used the debian package to install it, yes I did. Maybe this problem could be attributed to my kernel? Maybe it doesn't do memory management correctly? I also noticed that right after I went to a page which used java and the java vm started that my memory (now swap) usage went up by 5 meg! Is there someone else that may know more about this? It is starting to get really annoying when I have to have a xterm open all the time and every 5 min check the amount of free space to see if I have to close netscape and open it again to stop this memory growth problem. Is there anything that you know of that I can try (there's seems to be some weird bug here). Maybe when netscape gets compiled for libc6 I won't have to load the old v5 libs and it'll save memory??? Mark Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 30260 29816 444 9212 116 7440 -/+ buffers/cache: 22260 8000 Swap: 48188 20484 27704
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 157 1 S 0:00 (bash) 163 1 S 0:00 (xinit) 171 1 S 0:02 /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 181 1 S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmPager 8 5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fv 183 p0 S 0:00 -bash 193 1 S 2:59 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape mailbox: 205 1 S 0:00 (netscape) 363 p0 R 0:00 ps
