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Re: XF86_SVGA consuming over 60% of my memory



Christoph Simon wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 18:14:07 -0800
> Greg Strockbine <gstrock@pacbell.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > used to be I could have 2 emacs sessions,  an xterm,
> > > > gqview,  several netscape windows, and more and run
> > > > for over a month with no lose of resources.  It was rock
> > > > solid, now its limping like a sick puppy.
>
> Are you using Java in Netscape/Mozilla? Most of the troubles I'm
> experimenting in this sense are related to it. There is a popular java
> base chat site here, which holds CPU at 100%, possibily for hours. I
> set the nice value to 20, so at least the machine stays somehow
> usable.

hmm... usually I don't have Java enabled with Mozilla, but I went
to a website with a java applet that maxes out my cpu.  I think it
happens with Netscape too.   I wonder if that had anything to do
with the memory disappearing?

- greg s.



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