re: Netscape memory hoarding
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
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