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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!mozz.unh.edu!toto.plymouth.edu!wiz.plymouth.edu!ted From: ted@wiz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD a memory hog ? Date: 4 Apr 1996 02:36:15 GMT Organization: Plymouth State College -- Plymouth, NH Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4jvciv$rcc@toto.plymouth.edu> References: <dkleinh.828415914@isotope.ps.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ness.plymouth.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dirk Kleinhesselink (dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu) wrote: : I am running FreeBSD 2.1 on a P-100 with 16MB ram and 16MB swap. When I : run netscape, after awhile, netscape is killed by the kernel with the message : that the swap space is exhausted. I also have Linux and I have never had : netscape crash due to insufficient memory on Linux. I have the same amount : of swap when I run Linux and about the same number of processes. I thought : FreeBSD had better memory management than Linux. I used to run Linux with : only 8-MB ram and never had it kill netscape. Where is all the memory going ? For starters use the link-kit that come with the XFree86 dist and build your own X server for some reason I had a broble with The X server gobbling memory esp with netscape running. Not only did is stop growing after I compiled my own it used 1/2 as much mem to start. Also beware of sites using scrolling text w/javascript... Many unfrienly sites have infinite recursive calls to achive scrolling text.... Thgis causes netscape to grow and grow...... I was not looking and netscape one grep to 40M.