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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. ;)

Joe

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