Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:17:06 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: Carl Makin <cmakin@nla.gov.au>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD Message-ID: <199709260347.NAA00561@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:02:05 -0400." <19970925210205.04897@scsn.net>
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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
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