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Netscape 2.0b3 Memory Hog ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Bass (Java))
Fri Dec 8 00:29:47 1995

From: Tim Bass (Java) <java@dune.silkroad.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 00:09:06 -0500 (EST)


Hi.

We're looking at Netscape running no applet:
(linux P5-100 46MB ram)

 12:05am  up  1:44,  1 user,  load average: 0.26, 0.16, 0.11
34 processes: 32 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.7% user,  1.3% system,  0.0% nice, 98.1% idle
Mem:  47740K av, 33852K used, 13888K free, 12808K shrd, 16608K buff
Swap: 18412K av,     0K used, 18412K free

  PID USER     PRI  NI SIZE  RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
  847 root      17   0   97  316  180 R     1.3  0.6  0:02 top
  328 root      26   0 6844 5720  860 R     0.5 11.9  2:41 /usr/X11/bin/X :0
  838 root       2   0  365 1200  816 S     0.1  2.5  0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xterm -
    1 root       1   0   48  232  136 S     0.0  0.4  0:06 init auto
  317 root       1   0  160  296  196 S     0.0  0.6  0:00 -ksh

(top five, no netscape)

Now:  do XmasTree applet

34 processes: 32 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  8.9% user,  1.7% system,  0.0% nice, 89.6% idle
Mem:  47740K av, 33872K used, 13868K free, 12808K shrd, 16608K buff
Swap: 18412K av,     0K used, 18412K free

  PID USER     PRI  NI SIZE  RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
  368 root      23   0 1842088 7572 2792 S     5.0 15.8  3:15 /usr/local/bin/netsc
  328 root      26   0 6844 5720  860 R     3.5 11.9  2:42 /usr/X11/bin/X :0
  847 root      20   0   97  316  180 R     1.5  0.6  0:03 top
  838 root       7   0  365 1200  816 S     0.3  2.5  0:02 /usr/bin/X11/xterm -
  329 root       2   0  576 1056  668 S     0.1  2.2  0:00 /usr/openwin/bin/olv
    1 root       1   0   48  232  136 S     0.0  0.4  0:06 init auto

(wow: memory running applet higher than X !)

Now do the Kalideo applet:

  PID USER     PRI  NI SIZE  RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
  328 root      20   0 6844 5720  860 R     1.1 11.9  2:44 /usr/X11/bin/X :0
  847 root      22   0   97  316  180 R     1.1  0.6  0:04 top
  368 root      24   0 1842088 7600 2796 S     0.9 15.9  3:18 /usr/local/bin/netsc
    1 root       1   0   48  232  136 S     0.0  0.4  0:06 init auto
  317 root       1   0  160  296  196 S     0.0  0.6  0:00 -ksh

( memory still about 15 percent..... single threaded as well, compared
  to the multithread XmasTree applet )

This seems a little high, don't you think?

Tim



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