Mozilla gif rendering utilizes 100% cpu?

[Chris Kloiber]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 19:49, Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:53:49AM -0700, Vibol Hou wrote:
> > Does anyone have this particular page slowing their system down to a 
> > crawl in Mozilla?  I tried the same page in Opera and it works fine.  
> > System isn't choppy.
> > 
> > http://www.khmer.cc/community/t.c?b=12&t=17104
> > 
> > It's work-safe, just a bunch of animated gifs of science stuff.
> Mozilla memory usage climbs rapidly to about 300MB RES (600-700MB VIRT)
> to display this page (after it has finished loading).  This causes
> swapping (if you aren't blessed with huge amounts of RAM). Swapping
> causes headaches. I won't say the page is handled very efficiently, with
> regard to memory usage, but hey, we're talking about Mozilla here. Buy
> some more RAM and label the chips with "Reserved for Mozilla", then
> insert onto mainboard. See if problem goes away. 

Ow! Ran me right out of swap and crashed the system on
RHEL3-U2/mozilla-1.4.2-3.0.2. Will try later tonight on my FC2 box, but
it has a gig-o-ram, so I think I will not be crashing at least unless it
doesn't stop increasing the memory usage.

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Chris Kloiber <ckloiber at ckloiber.com>