Stephen Cohen wrote:
>What does Netscape do when sitting idle on a desktop? On my IPX, it consumes 30-40%
>when
> just sitting there. Also, CPU consumption for top goes from about 7% to about 25%
>when
> Netscape is active.
>This is pretty expensive (CPU wise) for something to be sitting idle.
I have noticed this too and not just for sparc, but Intel Linux too.
I can only speculate about the cause, but I have noticed that it only
happens with the newer releases of Netscape. I actually keep a copy of
V3.01 around precisely because it is less of a resource hog.
Skip
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