Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:40:57 -0800 (PST) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: [Offtopic-ish] Good OOM test, run Netscape! |
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Damon Buckwalter wrote:
> I was running some upgrade stuff (dpkg) on my Debian Linux system today, > and noticed that a malloc() failed, wich seems amazing on a 128M+64Mswap > system, so I opened up a copy of top to find the offender... top > reported that my copy of Netscape (which had been open for about 4 days > straight with pretty constant use) had a > -->>SIZE of 145M and an RSS of 81M!!
I noticed the same thing the other day one one of my slink systems but I did not have NS running, I killed and restarted X and it seemed to fix it.
George Bonser
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