From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 11 20:54:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D5737B6B5; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA08762; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:54:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:54:25 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Cc: Kent Stewart , dillon@apollo.backplane.com, dgilbert@velocet.ca, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. In-Reply-To: <200006120129.VAA69456@entropy.tmok.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: :Kent Stewart drunkenly mumbled... :> :> Netscape reallys goes to pot in a hurry if you allow it to use more :> than 1-2MB of memory cache. A friend was seeing a terrible response :> and tracked it back to Netscape's memory cache. He had a lot of memory :> and started out with something on the order of 16MB. By the time he :> was satisfied he was allowing less than ~2MB of memory cache, which is :> all I had ever allowed it to use. : :i never screwed with the memory cache, but i've seen some pretty heavy memory :leakage with navigator. how long have you had netscape running? an hour, a Netscape has lots of memory leaks. the worst seem to be in Javascript, with java being a close second. I find I get the best performance and stability out of it if I leave those off, except when you need them. I also keep the memory cache size small, 2 or 3 megs; I leave the disk cache at a large size, since I am behind a slow link. The FreeBSD buffer caching does a good job of not throwing stuff away that I am actually using, so that works out quite well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message