mozilla 1.2.1, slackware 8.1. Netscape 7.01

spook · 12-23-2002, 08:03 PM

Hi,

A raft of questions here I am afraid. Firstly I have recently upgraded my desktop machine to slack 8.1 and have started to use mozilla 1.0 and also netscape 7.01 that I downloaded seperatly. I have noticed that even if I only have a single browser window open in either then I have six processes running, each consuming over 15% of my 256Megs of RAM. If I open up a new tab or window this figure goes up to almost 20% per process etc. This seems utterly ridiculous: why are there multiple processes all using large chunks of RAM. I am used to Opera, which although has some bad points, it doesn't eat even 20% of my ram altogther, even with lots of tabs open.
Secondly, I have tried to upgrade mozilla to 1.2.1 by getting the package from the slackware-current tree and it installs fine but then mozilla will not run, complaining about libstdc++.so.5 not being present. I have a libstdc++.so.4 present but that doesn't seem to help. Anyone know how I can finx this problem? New libraries, or is it a path issue or something?
Thanks for any insight and enjoy the festive season (if you are having one).
spook
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Excalibur · 12-24-2002, 05:49 AM

Many programs actually use several processes, they called threads. I am not sure but I beleive from ny own results that the total memory reported is actually shred between all the threads. I have seen totals that would easily exceed the amount of RAM available, without any swap file, if this were not the case and I would think the numbers would be eroneous otherwise. I also am a Opera user, but when something just doesn't work that I have to have then I use Galeon as an alternative.

I would NOT suggest using ANY packages from the slackware-current tree on a system unless it was built from the current tree. That system is beta and is based on a completely different base system. Most packages from that tree will not work on an 8.1 system unless you upgrade everything. An attempt to upgrade would probalby result in a crippled system. Stick with Slackware-8.1 tree and the patches directory.

bynaar · 12-24-2002, 10:30 AM

Try this web page :
http://www.linuxpackages.net/