Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

In message <3f4747b255.jim@abbeypress.net>
Jim Nagel <netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm using Virtual RiscPC on my ol' Windows XP laptop while away from
> base. Various wrinkles of this setup are still unfamiliar to me.

> One is that Netsurf (recent, #3538) too quickly eats up all the free
> memory.

> What can I do to avoid this? I guess I either need to fix Netsurf or
> need to find a way to make Windows give more memory to VRPC. Haven't
> yet found a way to do either; advice welcome, please.

You've missed out several important bits of information:
- what version of VRPC
- what version of RISC OS
- how much memory is currently allocated to VRPC
- how much memory Netsurf is gobbling
- what sites are you visiting when this happens

For info, Netsurf #3597 on this ARMini with RO5.20 currently has a 7MB
wimpslot and a single 76MB dynamic area. Only the ROOL, StarDot and
ROUGOL webpages open at the moment, but it has been up and running for
over 10 days :-)

Compared to Firefox on my Linux laptop which needs over 300MB just to
start with no page open and rapidly grows to over 1GB, often consuming
all 2GB in the machine, I'd say NetSurf is being pretty frugal!

Bryan.

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