[ale] Netscape 6 for Linux

[Wandered Inn]

Stuffed Crust wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:32:24PM -0500, Wandered Inn wrote:
> > This is amazing to me, as the last time I tried mozilla it was worse
> > than this netscape 6.  Instead of 30% of my memory for mozilla it was
> > 30% per window.  Started hitting the cache after three windows.
> 
> Ah, when was the last time you tried mozilla?  it was about a month ago
> they drastically reduced its memory footprint and sped up the windowing
> toolkit it uses.

Just downloaded the latest nightly.  Opened up three windows,

'ps -aux|grep mozilla' output:

esoteric 22491 37.4 20.9 32280 26824 pts/3   S    10:20   0:44
./mozilla-bin
esoteric 22493  0.0 20.9 32280 26824 pts/3   S    10:20   0:00
./mozilla-bin
esoteric 22494  0.4 20.9 32280 26824 pts/3   S    10:20   0:00
./mozilla-bin
esoteric 22495  0.3 20.9 32280 26824 pts/3   S    10:20   0:00
./mozilla-bin

free output:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:        128092     124820       3272      37204       7256     
40600
-/+ buffers/cache:      76964      51128
Swap:      2120564      37364    2083200


Compared to netscape 4.76 'ps -aux|grep netscape':

esoteric 22529  3.5 13.9 24724 17832 ?       S    10:22   0:09 netscape

free output:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:        128092     124892       3200      36680       5664     
52532
-/+ buffers/cache:      66696      61396
Swap:      2120564      37364    2083200


I'd say that the memory impact is still substantial and unacceptable.


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