Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:29:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@users.tmok.com> To: kstewart@3-cities.com (Kent Stewart) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, dgilbert@velocet.ca, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. Message-ID: <200006120129.VAA69456@entropy.tmok.com> In-Reply-To: <39442834.F70AE453@3-cities.com> from Kent Stewart at "Jun 11, 2000 5: 0:52 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 day, a week? my experience (it seems to have gotten better lately since the upgrade to 4.0 however) has seen starting size 16M, ending size 172M, running time of 13 days. of course, the fact that netscape actually ran for 13 days without crashing is a bit of a miracle itself. :) cheers, -brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200006120129.VAA69456>