Although I have no figures from ps, I also got the impression that netscape is consuming too much memory. That one reason why I am considering to try the Mozilla deb (http://pandora.debian.org/~bfulgham)
> As of very recently, netscape has been acting up. A few times in the > past few days it has just about halted my machine, on one occasion I > needed to hard reboot. I just arrived back from class a few minutes ago > and I thought my comptuer was dead, turns out it was just going > REALLY slow. According to the cpu meter there was not much activity, > but when I checked the memory I saw that I had only like 12mb free of > physical (of 128) and like 40 of swap (of 300). No wonder things were > crawling. I could hear all the swapping as my drive churned. Anyways > ps aux showed that netscape was using 79%!! of my memory. I had to kill > -9 it, kill wouldn't work, but after that things have returned to > normal. What could be causing this? I use netscape for mail as well, > and I think that there is something messed up with one of my mailboxes, > but how does that cause this? > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
