> browser opened/Mb +page/Mb +1p84.pdb/Mb > MSIE6.0... 19 43 62 > Firefox1.5.0.3 18 42 65-->47 > Opera8.51 14 37 57 > > So I would have to say that Opera is doing something right here, and > Firefox has some way of reducing its memory footprint that the other > browsers don't have.
I am quite surprised to hear this. Applications don't usually return memory to the OS once they have allocated it. The Java plugin is definitely not returning memory to the OS. > [Later: Opera and MSIE both slowly dropped down > about 10 Mb as well.] Seems very strange to me. > Ah, now the behavior at http://fusion.stolaf.edu/chemistry/jmol/xtalx > (jmol 10.x) is quite different. In that case, loading up maleic.cif, > which has 18 crystals, and displaying the {1 1 1} unit cell produces an > interesting effect. Firefox is cycling on about a 20-second cycle > between 58 and 88 Mb memory usage, picking up about 2 Mb per second > until it gets to 88, then dropping again suddenly to 58 Mb. MSIE is just > sitting at 63 Mb; Opera is just sitting at 56 Mb. I wonder what in the > world is going on with Firefox? Note that this is whith repeating > setTimeout loop of 10 ms. When I change that to 100 ms, the cycling is > still there, just quite sow and not hardly to the same extent. > > Wow, here's something interesting: I do a getProperty auxiliaryInfo, > which gives me the information shown below for each of those 18 models, > and Firefox just shot up to 107 Mb and continues to climb to 115 Mb -- > cycling now down to 50 Mb and climbing rapidly again. What could that > be about? As I said in one of my messages yesterday, strange things must be happening when object references get passed from Java to JavaScript through the LiveConnect interface. > auxiliaryinfo=new Array() > auxiliaryinfo.modelSetAuxiliaryInfo=new Array() > auxiliaryinfo.modelSetAuxiliaryInfo.someModelsHaveFractionalCoordinates=true > auxiliaryinfo.modelSetAuxiliaryInfo.someModelsHaveSymmetry=true > auxiliaryinfo.modelSetAuxiliaryInfo.someModelsHaveUnitcells=true > auxiliaryinfo.models=new Array() > auxiliaryinfo.models[0]=new Array() > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].num=1 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo=new Array() > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.spaceGroup="P c" > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.symmetryCount=1 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.presymmetryAtomIndex=0 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.presymmetryAtomCount=24 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.coordinatesAreFractional=true > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.symmetryOperations=new Array() > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.symmetryOperations[0]="x,y,z" > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.notionalUnitcell=new Array() > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.notionalUnitcell[0]=3.8051 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.notionalUnitcell[1]=7.4961004 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.notionalUnitcell[2]=8.3524 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.notionalUnitcell[3]=90 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.notionalUnitcell[4]=98.84901 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.notionalUnitcell[5]=90 > auxiliaryinfo.models[0].modelAuxiliaryInfo.latticeDesignation="0: (0)" > auxiliaryinfo.models[0]._ipt=0 > > > auxiliaryinfo.models[1]=new Array() > > > > Miguel, I'd be interested in knowing, if you can't even get past loading > the applet, what your maximum memory allocation is set at, I have never set it. Default on Linux for Java Plugin seems to be 64 Mb. > or at least > what your process report says for the amount of memory used by Mozilla > right after the crash. It does not crash ... it just hangs. No report is generated. To help you out I just added some java memory usage statistics to the popup menu. Bring up the popup menu and bring up the About submenu. total = amount of memory requested from the operating system free = amount of free memory (always less than total) maximum = maximum total that Java will request. Note that a garbage collection is forced before the menu is displayed so that the 'free' number will be (basically) correct. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
