Hi,

Just posting this to give an example for Netscape's still unbelievable
wasting of memory:

I use MDK 8.0 with Netscape 4.77 as browser. My machine got 256M of
physical ram and a swap partition of 300M.
Now I had Netscape running for 2 days because i kept working on several
translations of MandrakeForum articles. The last one was a piece by
Civileme about what gets testet by Mandrake Q&A. I took some breaks in
between and in the meantime I read and wrote some mails with Mutt and
there was just one console window open and xosview running. All of this
took place on KDE.
At the end my harddisk startet to run frequently and xosview showed that
it startet swapping out. In the end I had a memory assessment of 240M
physical ram (just about 10% of it that was cache) and more than 280M of
swap space was in use. Reaction of the system startet to be sluggish.

Now I sent the finished translation up to the Forum and when I closed
Netscape xosview showed a memory occupation of 73M of ram and 52 of swap!
That means Netscape has taken more than 380M of memory!

A similar thing happened when I used to work with tkpppoe, a front end
for pppoe for my DSL connention. This tkpppoe works with wish and when I
saw xosview showing memory useage of more than 400M (ram + swap) I looked
at top and top showed wish using more than 260M of memory. As soon as I
exited tkpppoe those 260M were immediately released. How come wish is
taking so much memory?

wobo
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