RE: Memory Issues

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

> Second, both galeon and mozilla are still under heavy development
> and have not released good stable versions.  The problem your having
> sounds like a big memory leak.  
Well anything is possible but this is right after I launch it. I find it
hard to beleive that a stable release (0.6 being even) could have such
a large problem. But I'll check the mozilla site and see if I can search 
bugzilla. Galeon seemed to work after I installed mozilla 0.6 except
for the memory problem. 

Netscape 4.72 wasn't all that memory friendly either it tends to grow
with ever new window.

One good thing about Linux being open
> source... you can report the memory leak problem with galeon/mozilla
> developers and it should be fixed soon.  I recommend using 
> Netscape 4.76
> 
> for now.
> 
> Remember, Mozilla's Gecko html rendering engine is much more advanced
> than
> Internet Explorer and, thus, will be slower, more of a memory 
> hog due to
> more
> features and code.  Remember how slow and sluggish Win95 was when it
> first came out... the bigger the code, the more cpu/memory you need.
> 
> Personally, I'm very disappointed that Netscape released version 6 of
> their
> browser as a stable release so soon.  It still has a lot of bugs and I
> don't
> feel it was ready.  I can't even use Netscape 6 at work due to proxy
> problems.
> For now... Netscape 4.76 is the best choice with your hardware.
> 
> "Poletti, Don" wrote:
> 
> > I'm having performance problems on my machine and I'm 99%
> > sure its due to memory issues. I have 64Megs of Ram. But when
> > I run Galeon or Mozilla My machine starts swapping like mad
> > and changing windows talks 5 seconds or more. Using Gtop
> > I found that Galeon uses 80megs and Mozilla 0.6 was using
> > 130Megs! In both cases that was just to launch and display
> > Google's home page. No wonder my machine was crawling.
> >
> > What are my alternatives. I find this very annoying since
> > IE does need nearly so much ram so this makes Linux/Gnome
> > crawl compared with windows running on the same hardware doing
> > similar tasks.
> >
> > While I'm on a rant it look likes XMMS takes like 10-15 megs
> > Is it just me or does this seem way excessive.
> >
> > This will effectively keep me from using Linux/Gnome since
> > it less than half the speed of windows on my machine.
> >
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