Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 13:40:18 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> Cc: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.02b7 Message-ID: <199709010410.NAA00659@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Aug 1997 23:40:30 -0400." <Pine.GSO.3.96.970831233956.1987A-100000@echonyc.com>
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> 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
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