Netscape 6 and memory usage reporting...

[linuxguy at ici.net]

As you can tell (having posted about Opera and now Mozilla), I'm on a mission
to find a functional efficient browser.

I have a question. Output from 'top' reports...

  445 chris     17   0 28416  27M 13320 R     0.1 17.3   0:32 mozilla-bin
  447 chris      0   0 28416  27M 13320 S     0.0 17.3   0:00 mozilla-bin
  448 chris      0   0 28416  27M 13320 S     0.0 17.3   0:00 mozilla-bin
  449 chris      0   0 28416  27M 13320 S     0.0 17.3   0:00 mozilla-bin

First of all I don't necessarily understand why Netscape 6 has 4 processes,
but more importantly, each has exactly 27M of resident memory usage right
after starting the app.  Is it possible that these are threaded and actually
use the same memory space?

Netscape 4.77 has a huge memory leak in it.  Everytime my wife starts
using yahoo email, netscape grows without bound ( > 200 MB).  As she
types a email, I can watch the memory usage grow out of control.  It's
as if NS is malloc()'ing 1MB for every character she types.  Goofy.
Anyone have a similar experice with this?


- christoph



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