Rick Macdonald, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: > > > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > You mentioned Java applets. > > > > > > What if you fire up Netscape, and don't look at any web pages other than > > > whatever your startup home page is, and just leave it for an hour. Does > > > it grow and die? Maybe it's the pages you always visit. Java, animated > > > gifs, etc. > > > if I have 4 Netscape windows open and I just let them open up the > > Debian homepage and don't go to any other sites there is no problem. > > Then they only use up about 13Meg of Ram and don't even use any swap. > > > I do believe that when java is loaded my memory usage > > jumps enormously. After java has been running for a while it seems that > > its "garbage collection" feature which frees up memory doesn't work > > because it starts to gobble up memory at the rate of 10Kbytes per > > SECOND!!! > > OK, you seemed to have arrived at the conclusion that Java is at fault. > > How about you find one Java page that will do this. Fire up a fresh > Netscape, open one browser window, go to that one page, and let it sit > there untouched and prove that it is gobbling memory. > > Then, tell us what that page is. Then, a whole bunch of us can try it out. > I can try it on other platforms too, for curiosity (IRIX, Solaris). > > Although nobody seems to have seen this problem, I bet nobody doubts that > a page with Java applets could do this. Java in Linux Netscape has been > getting better, but still does weird things. > I just started doing this here is the URL that I went to:
www.netbuyer.com I noticed the memory usage jump by about 5Meg when navigator was started and after just staring at the page for 5 min I noticed the memory usage was once again starting to increase. Thanks for helping me out here. Mark Panzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
