RE: Possible netscape memory leak?

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On 08-Mar-2001 Tom Diehl opined:
> Hi all,
> I need some opinions. I have a machine with an amd K62-350 in it. It
> has 128Meg
> of ram and 256 Meg of swap. I am running several instances of netscape
> 4.76-1
> (Usually 3) and after about 3 or 4 days all of the memory and swap is
> consumed.
> If I do nothing it will thrash and eventaully lock hard. Through
> experimentation I have found out that if I kill off the netscape
> processes
> and restart them it frees up a big chunk of swap and memory. It just
> did it
> again and I killed netscape it freed 216 Megs of swap and about 62 Megs
> of
> memory. Does this sound like netscape is leaking memory or could it be
> the
> 2.4.2-ac10 kernel I am running. It did it with ac2 also. Also this is
> the only
> machine I am having trouble with. OTOH it is the only one with netscape
> installed also.

It's netscape. Did it to me on 2.0.X and 2.2.X no matter what version.
Sometimes it consumes all of my resources without letting days go by
beforehand.

> Also If this is netscape is it worth putting in buggyzilla? At this
> point
> is anyone likely to be interested in fixing it?

I doubt that bugzilla would fix it. It a-hole-l's problem (they own it
now) and they seem to be taking the M$ view: pretend problems don't exist
(ala java) and keep making it more bloated with new and unnecessary
"features" rather than fixing bugs. Eventually people will stop griping
and just go along.

In netscape's case, they even appear to have linux allies in helpng them
create the bloat. Maybe Gate$ can learn a little from that lesson.

Well, that's _my_ opinion, anyway.

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