Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 23:17:35 -0600 From: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Naw, Netscape doesn't have a memory problem! Message-ID: <20000502231735.A80066@const.> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000502210629.04400e80@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:11:06PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005010030340.67368-100000@barricuda.bsd.nws.net> <200005022127.OAA00936@usr02.primenet.com> <4.3.1.2.20000502210629.04400e80@localhost>
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On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:11:06PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > 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 I've installed Netscape 6 beta 1 on winblows 95 and 98, Debian (2.2) and Caldera. What are you talking about? Perhaps you've nurtured some kludged up mess of a box that's unlikely to run notepad with any stability? I keep hearing this predictable blather about Netscape 6 and wondering just how cruel I have to be to a system to reproduce these `crashes', but I have yet to experience it. It's certainly not perfect but it rivals 4.x for stability. -- Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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