[Virtualacorn-list] Netsurf memory management, was: RO 5.20 on VRPC

[Roger Darlington]

On 9 Jan 2014, Jeremy Nicoll - ml virtualacorn  wrote:
> Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:

>>I have now configured it that way and am now rolling in an extra 80MB,
>>which is now sufficient for Netsurf not to use up all its (the) memory
>>and crash even after looking at dozens of my flower pages on my
>>wildflowerfinder website.

> It's a long time since I used NetSurf, but this description sounds to me as
> if it indicates a big problem in NetSurf's memory management, maybe...

> When you "look at dozens of pages" do you mean

> a) that after looking at a page, you open another page as well, and then
>    another and so on, so you have dozens all open at once?   or

In sequence, not in parallel.

> b) that you only ever have a modest number open at once, but have had to
>    download images etc and render many more pages?

> And why would NS crash if it couldn't get required memory for an n'th page?
> Why wouldn't it handle this totally predictable situation?

Dunno Jeremy.



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Roger
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