From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 31 21:23:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05528 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 21:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05523 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 21:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (lot.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [203.20.121.21]) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA21781 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 13:52:17 +0930 (CST) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00659; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 13:40:19 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709010410.NAA00659@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Snob Art Genre cc: Peter Korsten , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.02b7 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Aug 1997 23:40:30 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 13:40:18 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Peter Korsten wrote: > > > 'Top' shows that Netscape takes some 13 Mb Mb memory (YIKES!). > > That's not counting the 9 MB taken up by its "DNS helper". Communicator forks to create the DNS helper process (a great idea, IMHO), so all you're seeing there is a second copy of the text; it's shared with the original copy, so it's not actually using any more memory. TBH, I'm surprised at the bitching; comparing the FreeBSD communicator with the same version running under W95 on the same machine the FreeBSD version is substantially more responsive. I had various people at the party I was at last night make the same observation - general feeling was that it was a Very Good Thing Indeed. 13MB is *nothing* either; on a decent display (eg. 24bpp), it's not uncomon for Netscape and the X server combined to top 60MB. This sounds pretty disgusting, but bottom line is that this is about what it takes. If you don't like the squeeze, use a less heavy browser; there's plenty of choice in the market. mike