Michael Kaply wrote: > Leak is a very interesting word. > If I need 145MB to display a page and I use 145MB, I am not leaking.
How many pages need even 1/10 of that to display? A really big page typically is less than 500K in HTML and maybe 4-5 times that GIF or JPG images, right? How much overhead can there be to display 3Mb or less of content? If a page uses much more than that people won't wait for loading to finish and go elsewhere. When I shut down 2.02, I get back usually less than around 8-10 Mb. 4.61 doesn't seem ever to free more than 30-40 Mb on shutdown. Unless you use Mozilla for viewing 60 Mb TIFF images, shouldn't it be scarfing up less than 50-60 Mb? The reason I upped RAM from 128 to 256 Mb was to prevent a need to swap. Is Mozilla counting freespace on the swap drive as available RAM in deciding when to give some back to the pool? As of 10:30 my swapper is grown to 93 Mb from its initial 20 Mb (47 Mb after closing the previous build), and free RAM is at 5 Mb. Since opening Mozilla around 01:00 this morning, the activity meter has pegged more than once, obviously when something was growing swapper, and at which time Mozilla was totally responsive and the desktop little better. There are four tabs open, only one with a page of anything remotely sizeable, a 108 count Bugzilla query result, which saves as a mere 50K HTML to disk. Prior to starting this thread, I hadn't seen swapper grow in many months. Something about Mozilla's current memory use can't be right. -- "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
