[ale] freeing memory

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:50 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I just found a great way to free up cached ram.
>
> 1. Start Mozilla
> 2. enter www.norton.com in the url bar and hit enter
> 3. wait about 30 seconds while Mozilla churns on the garbage that
> symantecs site spews and sucks up all the available ram while pushing to
> old cache stuff off the pile.
> 4. kill -9 mozilla-bin
>
> Ram usage dropped from 99-100% down to 36% on a 512 MB system

Konqueror seems to have no trouble at all with the page.

Michael
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