Re: swap

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:24:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
>> On Tuesday 08 May 2007 16:21, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:00:50PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:15:31 -0400
>>> 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...
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 


    I was curious so I clicked the link, nothing unusual no ram-sucking
on my machine. I am running Sid.

Cheers
Frank
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