On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:38:49PM -0700, whitevamp wrote:
sorry if this quistion has allread been asked and awnsered..
i got noticeing that my system was runnung out of mem so i did top and this is what
i found
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
9936 dave -22 0 219M 98M RUN 16:03 46.04% 46.04% netscape-bin
15211 dave 31 0 2056K 964K RUN 0:08 3.37% 3.37% top
3 root -18 0 0K 0K psleep 4:08 2.93% 2.93% pagedaemon
99894 dave 2 0 21268K 2212K poll 79:20 1.90% 1.90% kdeinit
9941 dave 10 0 219M 98M nanslp 0:21 0.20% 0.20% netscape-bin
99870 dave 2 0 59268K 18568K select 63:32 0.00% 0.00% XFree86
netscape was takeing up 98 mem of ram si closed netscape and then did top agine and
i found this
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
9936 dave -22 0 247M 102M swread 17:55 6.64% 6.64% netscape-bin
9941 dave 18 0 247M 102M pause 0:23 0.00% 0.00% netscape-bin
now it was takeing up 102 meg of ram
so my quistion is this what would be causeing netscape to be useing up so much ram?
and how do i fix it?
Netscape 7.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1
uname -a
FreeBSD vampextream.com 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT
2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
thx in advance for any help any one can give me on this ..
Netscape and Mozilla and presumable some other related browsers have a
failure mode where either the on-screen windows freeze or disappear,
but the actual binary is left running in a catatonic state where it
just spins and takes up system resources but doesn't do anything
useful. Generally I've seen this triggered by websites using Flash
animation and a few other data types which Netscape has to load a
plugin to deal with. It can also sometimes leave some 'helper'
applications running in the same sort of disconnected state.
The only thing to do in those cases is kill all of the catatonic
processes, and learn to avoid the sites that cause the problems.
Cheers,
Matthew
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