Re: tlug: Netscape major 'OOPS'!

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Marcus Metzler wrote:

> Scott Stone writes:
>  > On 26 Oct 1998, Totoro wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
>  > > 
>  > > 
>  > > > when making the TL RPMs... oh well.  4.5 glibc is still a memory hog, but
>  > > > it seems like it's fairly non-leaky - ie, it gobbles ~20MB and stays at
>  > > > that, and doesn't grow out of control like 4.06 glibc could/did.
>  > > 
>  > > Try taking it out to a heavy-duty java site like this one:
>  > > 
>  > > http://ww.npac.syr.edu/projects/vishuman/VisibleHuman.html
>  > > 
>  > > Just for fun I ran 4.5-glibc on it, and bang! It jumped up to
>  > > 41 MB of memory use. Personally, I like the speed and better
>  > > stability of 4.5, but ya gotta watch the memory on this pup.
>  > > Maybe that's part of the new style of security for NS, since
>  > > you have to kill it every little while (thereby clearing out
>  > > the cache...).
>  > 
>  > 
>  > how about the libc5 version of NS 4.5?  Is it any better?
>  > 
> I think it is. On that site give above it uses about 21MB. It seems
> fairly stable.

I guess I'm leaning towards 4.5 libc5 for the TL 3.0 release, then.  the
glibc versions don't seem to be stable (although I'm not sure why not,
really, if they're just compiled on a different machine with a different
libc..?)

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