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Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD 
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:17:06 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 10:24:26AM +1000, Carl Makin wrote:
> > When I start Netscape it uses about 16Mb and launches another process (DNS
> > Helper?) that uses another 7Mb.  I've seen several of these "DNS Helpers"
> > running.
> 
> If you don't have a lot of memory to spare, you can disable the "DNS helpers"
> by setting the environment variable MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS to "True".
> 
> export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True

Note however that the helper does *NOT* use 7MB of your memory; much of 
that 7MB is shared with the parent; all it's using for itself are the 
extra stack pages and a little local data.  For the improvement in 
interface that it buys you, I'd consider it essential.

mike