[pmmail-list] New beta and memory leak in OS/2?

[Robert Traynor (BobT)]

Hi John,

I am using eCS 1.1 (but sending this from WinXP).

Personally, I would point the blame at Netscape 4.61 for os/2.

I have recently discovered that if my os/2 Netscape 4.61 bookmark
file exceedes 450kb, then NS will stay in memory but not show
in the alt-esc task list.  Some sort of zombie thread.
Worse, the only way to get rid of it, is the shutdown, often
by way of ctrl-alt-del as it would frequently refuse to allow
the OS to complete its shutdown proceedure. It cannot be killed
by any utility I have tried so far.

The zombie thread thing is also made worse if I have any of the
later mozilla code browsers for os/2 or windows, sharing the
SAME bookmark file as os/2 Netscape 4.61.

There is a lot of old code and don't forget, NS 4.61 is not only
old, BUT is an "OLD WINDOWS Netscape" ported code base.

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Robert Traynor (BobT).
2 June 2003   13:59


On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 11:17:11 +1000 (EST), John Angelico wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 09:01:18 -0400, brandonk@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
> wrote:
> >Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 16:52:10 +0200 (CEST)
> >From: "Frank Winkler @home" <Frank.Winkler@consol.de>
> >Subject: Re: [pmmail-list] New beta and memory leak
> >
> >On Sat, 31 May 2003 08:33:08 +0100 (BST), Dave Saville wrote:
> >
> > >>Could this be relevant to the OS/2 program as well? Now that I have a cable
> > >>connection, I am leaving PMMail running far longer than before, along with
> > >>NS4.61 [to which it has a link for URLs of course]. I use RMB popups all
> > >>the time, and I notice that after an hour or two, my swap file has expanded
> > >>quite a lot. 
> > >
> > >Don't think so - I am running 2.10.2010 24*7 for weeks on end and
> >
> >So do I ...
> >
> 
> Hmmm, I am running 2382
> 
> > >don't see a swap problem.
> >
> >... but I can confirm that the memory being used by PMMail constantly grows. I 
> >wasn't able to track this down to the actual reason but I don't think it's 
> >related to the popup stuff too much cause there are only very few RMB popups 
> >in my case. But maybe there is a connection to the trash folder which is 
> >getting filled up and its index being maintained in memory.
> >After about two weeks of uninterrupted operation I have to stop and relaunch 
> >PMMail to get my OS back to life. This normally brings about 50 MB of virtual 
> >memory.
> 
> Now you have me confused again! <G>
> 
> I lose about 100Mb of swapper (ie. that much less space is unused as per
> system resource monitor) within 3-4 hours.  So like you I stop and restart
> PMMail and NS.
> 
> This doesn't compare with your experience, so I can still suspect NS4.61,
> can't I?
> 
> 
> Best regards
> John Angelico
> OS/2 SIG
> talldad@melbpc.org.au or talldad@kepl.com.au


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