Joerg,

I think all of us have seen sites which are "memory eaters" ...
About.com used to be really bad, IIRC. :<

This site, however, shows some very interesting patterns with page
loads/reloads ... Michael?

The first time I got to the site I had 142 mem available; next page
dropped it down to 141; next page to 136 or so  ... I pulled the ol'
clear-the-memory stunt of shelling out to DOS [ALT-E] and returning. 
When I returned I was back to 142 available memory.

Then I did something that showed results I've never seen before on a
memory-eater site:  If I went back to the pages I'd already d/l'd there
was no decrease in memory available.  Going back, going forward, if the
page was already in cache it had no effect on available memory.

However, when I started downloading new pages once more, I got a
dramatic drop in memory available == from 142 to 111 in one big bite. 
But after that the next half-dozen pages downloaded caused no further
decrease in available memory.

So, that's why I've cc'd this to bugs.  I don't know what's going on
with the site, the page design, or Arachne. But this is the first time
I've noticed that cached pages have a different effect on available
memory than newly downloaded pages do.  This may be the "lab site" that
will allow the xChaos folx to figure out where/why/how-to-fix the memory
eater problem.

l.d.
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:01:40 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:

> Hi folks,

> noticed while browsing the articles that loading the next page will eat up about 
> 48 kB
> xSwap memory which will not be released. This leads to red numbers for free 
> xSwap. Has anyone seen this before?

> Regards Joerg
> -- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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