Leak is a very interesting word. If I need 145MB to display a page and I use 145MB, I am not leaking.
Leak would be artificial growth of memory over time even though I am doing the same task. If you surf for an hour and the memory slowly grows, that might be a leak, it might not. The browser might be using a private memory heap and hasn't filled up its own heap and started reusing it. It's all relative Mike Wolfi wrote: > David Graser wrote: > > > > > > Here is what I have observed. If Mozilla just sits there open and there > > is no action as far as moving to different web pages or getting mail, > > then the RAM usage stays approximately the same. Start moving to > > various web pages, opening and closing mail, and you will see your free > > RAM drop. It continues to drop so long as you don't close Mozilla. By > > this, I mean that if you come back after a few hours and pick up where > > you left off, you will see your RAM usage continue to drop. It looks to > > me like free RAM will be eventually used up if one never closes > > Mozilla. I left Mozilla open for around 6 hours, leaving and coming > > back, checking web pages and mail, and my free RAM dropped by 50 MB. > > This is using XCenters free memory monitor. I cleared the memory cache > > and disk cache and it had no effect. Closed Mozilla and my free RAM > > went back up to where it originally started. Using Mozilla 1.1a dated > > 6/18/2002 with widget fix 2. > > > > David > > > > Wolfi > > > >>> > >> Don't see this here. According to XCenter's Sentinel.wgt my system is > >> currently using 125MB RAM and this didn't change noticably over the > >> last 7h. > >> One browser and one M&N window open since then. > >> > > Maybe I falsely drew the wrong picture here. It wasn't that my PC was just > sitting around with those two windows open. During this time I used it heavily > browsing to a lot of different places and had several tabs (up to 14, mostly > 6..8) open in the browser window as well as reading and replying to different > newsgroups. But I mainly used only a single browser window and also only a > single M&N window and not multiple of those. > Right now XCenter shows 145MB in use. > > Wolfi
