How to free memory in IE?

[Tim Jowers]

Anybody figure out IE memory leak bug yet? I see huge memory wastes in
IE and Netscape so maybe it is the way the video driver is used to
draw the screens?

IE Version: 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp1.020828-1920IC. Netscape 6.2.1. I have
768MB and all I'm running is browser and a web server. Once browser
gets to 1GB the system becomes unusable. XP. Ready for prime time?

Does IE not support frames? Is there a patch or later version of IE? I
am using the automatic updates for XP. Is there a trick I can do on
the server side? Setting a flush buffer side doesn't help so far.

It is interesting how sorry the memory management is in both browsers.
The total sizes of the gif.s on disk is 54MB but both allocate 400+MB
just to display these. Strange. I would have expected this in 1994 but
this is a sure sign software engineering is dead in the USA.

Thanks,
Tim Jowers

 

[Tim Jowers]

Anybody figure out IE memory leak bug yet? I see huge memory wastes in
IE and Netscape so maybe it is the way the video driver is used to
draw the screens?

IE Version: 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp1.020828-1920IC. Netscape 6.2.1. I have
768MB and all I'm running is browser and a web server. Once browser
gets to 1GB the system becomes unusable. XP. Ready for prime time?

Memory used in MB
Size on disk: unk 0.3 53 43 2
IE: 186 215 495 1.05 235
Opera 7.51: 210 219 355 533 258
Netscape 6: similar to IE. see previous post.
Netscape 7: installed but it will not run... exception message was
"appendFromReadable ... in xpcom.dll". Guess it does not work with XP
Home with latest updates. Shoulda stayed with 6 I guess. "unk" above
is the initial page and has the footprint of the nav bar and other
common stuff on each page.

Learned, IE does free memory if a page has been fully loaded before
loading the next page. The bug exists in IE and Netscape but not in
Opera. Would be nice to compare other browsers as well. One has to
wonder what code, if any, IE and Netscape have in common. Opera
actively frees memory as it loads images as the dir with 53MB above
shows memory of 378MB used while loading but settles to 355MB by the
end of loading. Clearly the bug is in the browsers and not in the
video driver.

Summary. Web browsers perform exceedingly poorly at displaying
images. IE and Netscape are horrific and should only be used for
extremely small content web pages. In fact, that's all they allow for
most users.

TimJowers

P.S> I might hope however slimly possible this is a
Tomcat+IE/Netscape+XP Home bug. Too many configurations to try and
test!