21468 - Memory footprint of Mozilla too high (24MB!)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

Description

[Srinivasa A. Shikaripura]

Environment:

Mozilla: M11 NightlyBuild
BuildID: 1999121908
OS: NT 4.0 SP3
PC: HP Vectra VA, Pentium 200MHz, 64MB RAM

How to reproduce:

1. Load URL http://www.slashdot.org/
2. Bring up th "Windows NT Task manager"(using CTL-ATL-DEL and selecting ATL-T)
3. Select "Processes" and check the memory used by Mozilla

What happens:

1. You can see in the "NT Task manager", mozilla is using 24MB
   of memory under memory usage.

PS: Comparision: For the same page:

    Memory usage by Communicator 4.7 + mail :  8MB
    Memory usage by IE 5.0                  :  6MB
    Memory usage by Mozilla M11             : 24MB!

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-Sas

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

Reassigning all of leger's unscreened Browser-General bugs to [e-mail]
for pre-screening and triage.

Comment 2

[Sean Richardson]

The (somewhat) good news: it now takes 5 Mozilla browser windows viewing
Slashdot to use up 24MB on NT on a system equivalent to the reporter's
(only difference: a slower processor) with a few other apps running.

The bad news: one window viewing Slashdot still takes up 12MB.

The worse news: Closing four of the five windows viewing Slashdot only
reduces the memory usage from 24MB to 21MB! (Even after starting more apps)

Tested with: 2000-01-01-08-M13 nightly binary on Windows NT 4.0sp3.

Comment 3

[Eli Goldberg]

This looks like a Don bug...

Comment 4

[Chris McAfee]

We're tracking memory usage on Tinderbox and are
very aware of the memory usage problem.
This general bug isn't very useful, please file specific
bugs per this problem.  marking won't fix; it's not
"invalid", and this bug will just keep sliding out
without meaning very much.

Comment 5

[leger]

Marking Verified/Won't Fix.