In message <50919c6d84ch...@chrisjohnson.plus.com>
Chris Johnson <ch...@chrisjohnson.plus.com> wrote:
> In article <20090827234943.42023...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>,
> Rob Kendrick <r...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:18:13 +0100
> > Richard Porter <r...@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
>
> > > Yes, I've noticed that Netsurf is gobbling up memory again. Last
> > > time I found it had three dynamic areas, and I had to quit it
> > > before anything else woud run.
>
> > Just as a note, the number of dynamic areas it has means very
> > little.
>
> But when they are 50-60 MB, then it can soon take significant
> fractions of memory when one only has 512MB in total on an Iyonix.
> Even when all pages are closed, the amount never decreases.
>
> The largest (of four) is currently 16MB, and I have done virtually no
> browsing today 8o(
The Jobstoday website seem to have a knack of running netSurf out of memory
cleanly.
http://www.jobstoday.co.uk/jbe/vacancy/8y6TaE/9733473/35584595/932955502/0/onnufQ/0/1
The above link, loaded on a cleanly-booted system, shows no sign of ever
displaying anything, but on my system it will use up a 128Mb DA and then 7
or 8 1Mb DAs before complaining that 'NetSurf is running out of memory'.
There is constant network activity while it downloads I-don't-know-what over
and over, but nothing ever displays.
Seen on builds 9382 and 9506.
I've already logged this as 'Galloping memory leak' (although the link in
this email is a new example of the same problem), and trying with build 9506
now, the behaviour seems to be exactly the same as on build 9382.
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| in a pool of water. The snake drinks the
| water, and the bird eats the snake. When
| the water is gone, the bird dies.
