On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 09:04:52PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Keith Dart wrote:
> >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've found that it's often not so much about how much Mozilla is
taking up itself, as how much it's requesting from the X server. So for
a lot of font handling and the like, the extra memory is actually in X,
but will still get freed so long as Mozilla shuts down cleanly. You see
this a lot more if you start hitting pages with Japanese text or other
large font sets.
Check how much memory X is taking up before and after you kill Mozilla
for one of these 'sluggish' periods.
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