[ale] Netscape 6 for Linux

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:

> 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

Only one of which counts.  Welcome to ps under linux and multi-threaded
apps.

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

It's 25% more, using your figures.  The question is, what is it after
running for a while?  On my system, netscape leaks much more, and much more
quickly, than mozilla, quickly ballooning to 40+ Megs RSS (100+ Megs on bad
days), while mozilla behaves much more reasonably....

I'm also not sure why your mozilla is so big to begin with; from ps -aux,
and freshly started nightly Mozilla vs Netscape 4.76:

kaboom   21888 28.2 11.2 22304 14460 pts/0   S    09:18   0:18 /usr/lib/netscape/476/communicator/communicator-smotif.real http://www.yahoo.com/
kaboom   21944  0.0  0.7  1792  900 pts/0    S    09:18   0:00 sh /opt/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
kaboom   21949 13.3 15.6 25224 20108 pts/0   S    09:18   0:07 /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
kaboom   21951  0.0 15.6 25224 20108 pts/0   S    09:18   0:00 /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
kaboom   21952  0.0 15.6 25224 20108 pts/0   S    09:18   0:00 /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
kaboom   21974  0.0 15.6 25224 20108 pts/0   S    09:18   0:00 /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin

You might have build w/ debugging and / or w/o optimization?

That's not to say mozilla doesn't have problems (it does), but I think its
memory footprint, start-up time, etc., are actually as good as or better
than netscape's.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu

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