From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 2 21:30:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90F937B7C6 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 21:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA13082; Tue, 2 May 2000 22:30:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000502210629.04400e80@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 21:11:06 -0600 To: Terry Lambert , kris@hiwaay.net (Kris Kirby) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Naw, Netscape doesn't have a memory problem! Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200005022127.OAA00936@usr02.primenet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:27 PM 5/2/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >The problem appears to be that bitmaps instanced in shared memory >do not have their reference counts properly decremented when they >are no longer referenced. The problem happens in Windows, too. Certain pages (the abcnews.go.com home page is one of them) cause recent versions of Netscape to wrap themselves around a tree. The browser grabs more memory, and more, and more.... Until the entire system is starved for RAM. I'd hoped that 6.0 would fix the problem, but it crashed immediately after install when I tried it -- maybe because I refused to give AOL reams of personal information about myself during the registration process. (Their unmitigated gall is showing in the new browser.) So, I can't tell. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message