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. 



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