Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:07:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Sean Batson <valtech@caribnet.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0 Javascripts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960429000303.13387O-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0uDJb1-000FPpC@prop>
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On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Sean Batson wrote: > Under observation, Netscape's Java interface eats up VM space > after downloading a web page and leaving it idle; you can just > see the VM space(swap) decrease and decrease unitl the entire > system crashes and I mean crash. (A WEB PAGE WITH A JAVA SCRIPT > SCROLLING DATA ON THE STATUS LINE). That is not good. :( I've hated that stupid scroller down there. Now I have some ammunition as to why NOT to use it: it crashes UNIX boxes. (I have an excuse to turn off Java, now one to turn off JavaScript!) There has been some discussion that Netscape may use a buggy version of malloc() that has a memory leak. It's statically linked from the BSD/OS libs, which may contain the error. > Shouldn't there be some sort of crash recovery machanism in XFREE > to clean up and then RELOAD in these kind of instances? No, not really. It suffers from the same bug. :( To semi-quote: GOOD SOLUTION: relink Xfree with the -lgnumalloc flag. (think that's right). BAD (but easier) SOLUTION: exit and restart the X server every so often. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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