Daniel Barclay wrote: > I didn't get any solid results on memory size, but I did notice > that after a while, the netscape process would chew up about 90% > CPU time when it shouldn't have been doing anything. It would > still function (redrawing exposed windows, responding to menu > commands, and usually responding to link clicks), but slowly. > > On different runs, it happened at different resident set sizes > (so some crazy theory I had about some (non-Java) garbage collection > or other memory management going on at 32MB was, well, crazy.) > > That was when I hadn't run any Java applets. With Java started, > whenever it triggered into 90%-CPU mode, it stopped responding > completely. (No exposure redrawing, no menus, no Alt-Q.) > > Oh yeah, another thing: In non-Java 90% CPU mode, I could quit, > but the netscape process would keep running, using 90% CPU. > I didn't seem to be only temporary (e.g., to update the history > or bookmarks files or something).
I get exactly the same problem fairly frequently, resulting in a reboot as the only way to free the memory that I know of. Paul -- Paul Walton * Powered by * Cambridge * Debian GNU Linux * U.K. * http://www.debian.org *
