[ale] Netscape 6 for Linux

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Chris Ricker wrote:

> > I'd say that the memory impact is still substantial and unacceptable.
> 
> It's 25% more, using your figures.

Note my previous response to Crust (??) indicating that I did in fact
misread the 'free' output and the impact is not as substantial as I
originally thought.

> 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 leave Netscape up on two different machines for days on end and do not
have this leak problem.

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

Don't know, this latest one was the last nightly build which I just
downloaded for this 'test.'

> 
> 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.

For me, the jury's still out, but I've gotten enough info (and
corrections :) ) to revist Mozilla and give it another shot.

Thanks.

> 
> later,
> chris
> 
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> Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
>                                               chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu
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