Re: Memory still not being released

In article <5400C022.3000008@netsurf-browser.org>,
Michael Drake <tlsa@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> You say "persist" and "still"; is there some context for this that
> I am missing? Do we have a log files for such runs?

I think this problem has been raised on a number of occasions,
probably for more than a year. The comment that has come back is that
RISC OS has appalling memory management routines and not much can be
done. Many other apps manage to release their DAs when documents are
closed.

The problem seems to be release of memory. For example, I have just
run Netsurf, and looked at a couple of ROOL forum pages. Netsurf has
claimed three dynamic areas totalling 16 MB, the largest more than 12
MB. However, this memory usage is not released when the pages are
closed. When different pages are loaded the claimed memory
continually increases. On this machine (on 24/7) I used to get
regular crashes when one of Netsurfs dynamic areas reached ca. 131 MB
which is the maximum setting. I am now in the habit of regularly
quitting Netsurf so the DAs are released.

One can live with it.

--
Chris Johnson