On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 19:04, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Keith Dart wrote: > > 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. > > If it were leaking memory, would it be taking up an enormous percentage of RAM? When > I run > top to check its memory usage, it says that mozilla-bin is only using 10.8%.
Well, I find Mozilla to be slow, regardless. I use Galeon. Try that, I don't think you will be disappointed. -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Dart <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.kdart.com/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key ID: B08B9D2C Public key: <http://www.kdart.com/~kdart/public.key> ============================================================================
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