On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 12:58, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> My main Gentoo box has a 1.3Ghz Athlon. 768Mb SDRAM, and a 80Gb HD. I almost always 
> have X 
> running, and when X is running, so is Mozilla with typically 5 browser windows and a 
> mail 
> window. After a few days like this, the system starts getting sluggish. Mozilla gets 
> especially sluggish. When I say sluggish, I mean it takes 10-15 seconds to paint the 
> window. If I restart Mozilla, it speeds up almost back to normal, but still a bit 
> sluggish. If I completely restart X, Mozilla is good as new. Does anyone else 
> experience 
> this, or atleast know why its acting like this?

I believe Mozilla (and anything else based on its core libraries, e.g.
galeon) has monstrous memory leakage. Just exit completely from
Mozilla/whatever periodically. 

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