Re: tlug: netscape-glibc

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Totoro wrote:
    >> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
    >> 
    >> > > I'm using the glibc-built Netscape 4.06 - I thought the old
    >> one was a > memory leaker.. this thing is up to 13MB of memory
    >> usage (from 9MB) in > less than four minutes - is it just me,
    >> or has anyone else seen this?
    >> 
    >> Only 13?? Jeez, mine STARTED up at 13 MB. Try going to a page
    >> that has java on it, and watch this sucker go! Mine jumped from
    >> 14 to 21 just on opening the page, and it keeps climbing. Looks
    >> like this one needs some help...

    Scott> I guess so... it does crash less than the libc5 version,
    Scott> though.  Although the libc5 version doesn't eat RAM like
    Scott> this..

I mind me of the time I started HotJava.  Started at a nice reasonable 
8 MB.  After forty-five minutes, I killed it.  125MB of VM, I only had 
a few odd bytes left here and there unused---it was about to kill me.

Java's garbage collection philosophy is um, wasteful, I think.

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