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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:16:54 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
To:        Carl Makin <cmakin@nla.gov.au>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199709250616.AAA14883@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970925100009.25257A-100000@gadget.nla.gov.au>
References:  <199709240012.TAA09815@nospam.hiwaay.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96.970925100009.25257A-100000@gadget.nla.gov.au>

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Carl Makin writes:
 > 
 > On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
 > 
 > > These days I'm down to 32M core and up to 64M swap. Good Old X11R6... :-)
 > 
 > Hmmm, I have 32Mb core and 100Mb swap on two disks and I run out daily. :(
 > 
 > There seems to be something weird with Afterstep 1.0, XFree86 3.3.1 and
 > possible Netscape. :(

I'd strongly suspect Memscape, er, Netleak, er, Netscape.  Nice effort,
but leaks like a sieve.  The Java VM is particularly bad.  I'm told
4.02/4.03 are better, but haven't tested much yet.  4.02 doesn't leak
bytes for every Java VM socket connection like 3.03 did on Win32 at
least.

-- 
          "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com



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