On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:56:51PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 May 2007 16:21, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > [snip] > >> Sometimes, just links2, sometimes konq. I ususally use Xfce but have > >> tried it with just rxvt, pdmenu, then links2 or konq. Try this site: > >> > >> http://www.uhn.ca/Clinics_&_Services/services/asthma > >> > >> Then click on "Our Team". > >> > >> I don't know what's with this site but all of a sudden Xorg starts > >> racking up the memory. When I leave the site, the memory footprint > >> doesn't shrink. Eventually, I just exit X and startx again. Not that > >> it thrashes, but... > > > >> Doug. > > > > Wow! That site doesn't half hammer the RAM. On my Gateway P111 500Mhz machine > > with 250MB RAM, gkrellm normally shows about 190MB free (no swap used). > > > > Going to the site started to hit the RAM. It was up and down like a yo-yo, > > dropping as low as 11.1MB free, and with frequent freezing of gkrellm. > > > > Clicked on "our team", and the RAM got hammered again. Big freezeup of > > gkrellm, then the page was loaded, and free RAM levelled out at 84MB. That > > means that 110MB of RAM is being used to view the site. There has to > > something wrong with it, surely. > > > > That was using FC2, KDE, and Konqueror. > > > > Nigel. > > Confirmed, That site does use 110MB of RAM. Why? Who knows? The page > is not that big. It's a perfect example of why I say that modern web > pages suck. <div> all over the place formatting itself to it's > resolution instead of mine. > > It seems to me, some webmasters should be shot. ;) > yep. but works fine here in up-to-date sid/xfce/iceweasel. my ram usage goes from 304MB, to 328MB on the front page. no change in "our team" and frees it when I close the tab. Now 25MB is definitely huge for a webpage, but its not causing anything like you guys are suggesting. A
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