netscape memory leak

[Matthew Seaman]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:38:49PM -0700, whitevamp wrote:
> sorry if this quistion has allread been asked and awnsered..
> 
> i got noticeing that my system was runnung out of mem so i did top and this is what i found 
> 
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
> 
> 9936 dave -22 0 219M 98M RUN 16:03 46.04% 46.04% netscape-bin
> 
> 15211 dave 31 0 2056K 964K RUN 0:08 3.37% 3.37% top
> 
> 3 root -18 0 0K 0K psleep 4:08 2.93% 2.93% pagedaemon
> 
> 99894 dave 2 0 21268K 2212K poll 79:20 1.90% 1.90% kdeinit
> 
> 9941 dave 10 0 219M 98M nanslp 0:21 0.20% 0.20% netscape-bin
> 
> 99870 dave 2 0 59268K 18568K select 63:32 0.00% 0.00% XFree86
> 
> netscape was takeing up 98 mem of ram si closed netscape and then did top agine and i found this 
> 
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
> 
> 9936 dave -22 0 247M 102M swread 17:55 6.64% 6.64% netscape-bin
> 
> 9941 dave 18 0 247M 102M pause 0:23 0.00% 0.00% netscape-bin
> 
> now it was takeing up 102 meg of ram
> 
> so  my quistion is this what would be causeing netscape to be useing up so much ram? and how do i fix it?
> 
> 
> 
> Netscape 7.1
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1
> 
> uname -a
> 
> FreeBSD vampextream.com 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> 
> thx in advance for any help any one can give me on this ..

Netscape and Mozilla and presumable some other related browsers have a
failure mode where either the on-screen windows freeze or disappear,
but the actual binary is left running in a catatonic state where it
just spins and takes up system resources but doesn't do anything
useful.  Generally I've seen this triggered by websites using Flash
animation and a few other data types which Netscape has to load a
plugin to deal with.  It can also sometimes leave some 'helper'
applications running in the same sort of disconnected state.

The only thing to do in those cases is kill all of the catatonic
processes, and learn to avoid the sites that cause the problems.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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