Bug 21181
| Summary: | Netscape 4.76 memory leak | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael> |
| Component: | netscape | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | dr, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-11-24 05:29:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Michael Schwendt
2000-11-21 14:56:09 UTC
Are you using java at all? No Java at all. That means no JDK installed on this machine and Java disabled in browser. Just JavaScript is enabled. Since this bug might depend on glibc <= 2.1.94-3, I've decided to test-drive 4.76 with the new glibc 2.2. Just checking ; the JVM has been notably leaky in the past. Just like the problems with xmms and sendmail, I think this bug is caused by problems with the glibc pre-release snapshots. Well, either that or really some strange addition in Netscape 4.76. I'm successfully running Netscape 4.76 with glibc 2.2 for quite some time by now. But when I downgraded to glibc 2.1.94-3 just for fun ;-), it didn't take a quarter of an hour to get that memory leak lock-up again (I was replacing hardware components and had to reboot several times -- this was the best opportunity to load Netscape from scratch which takes longer than when it loads from disk cache). Note that I'm certain it has to do with the startup/shutdown procedure in Netscape 4.76. It has nothing to do with loading specific pages or running the browser for a long time. Also, it is not just an ordinary memory leak which slowly takes away chunks of memory, but -- provided that it occurs -- a real critical one which eats up the entire virtual memory in less than half a minute. Conclusively, as long as this misbehaviour does not happen with the glibc 2.2 update, I consider this as fixed. I am using netscape-communicator-4.76-1 on Redhat 7 with glibc-2.2-12 and kde 2.0.1 ... Netscape freezes often and I am always ready to do a killall -9 netscape-communicator. It seems this happens when Javascript is active, or when I use email ... Perhaps there is some lock coming out from network delays? > Netscape freezes often and I am always ready
> to do a killall -9 netscape-communicator.
Netscape usually just _seems_ to freeze. Wait 2-3 minutes and watch how it comes
back to life. I don't know what it does meanwhile. Maybe its related to
time-outs or close-to-deadlock like code choking on pages or DNS lookups. Try
Galeon or Mozilla >= 0.7 as an alternative.
(And to not start any confusion -- afterall, this bug has been closed since the
glibc update -- I haven't had that memory leak since then.)
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