netscape memory leak

[whitevamp]

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 ..

David D.


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