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Mopping Up Mozilla Memory Leaks

Posted by Hemos on from the code-janitors-unite dept.

mouseman writes "Geodesic Systems, a maker of memory management/debugging software, has a live demo of their Linux product running on the Mozilla nightly builds. It's pretty damn slick -- it detects memory leaks and can show where in the code the leaked memory was allocated and actually recover (GC) the leaked memory. The Mozilla reports actually look pretty good, which jibes with my own impressions of how much it has improved -- see for yourself."

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  1. Slashdotted already? by Isaac-Lew · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    'Nuff said :P.

    1. Re:Slashdotted already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Mozy has many usfulfeatures that IE does not

      Too many features, I'd say. Makes it harder to use, slows it down, gives it too huge a memory footprint.

      Just give me Galeon, or Konqeuror. Or even lynx. If I have to use windows, I'll even take IE.

    2. Re:Slashdotted already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah, I see this opinion all the time. Mozilla is too slow, Mozilla is too bloated, too many features.

      Well, that's your opinion. I find that a lot of Linux users tend to have this opinion, perhaps because UNIX is more based around the idea of small reusable components than other platforms.

      Usually posts like that one end up with something like "Yeah, but I love Konquerer or Galeon, it's so light!", which just shows that you prefer small and fast to not so small and not so fast (but with more features). Fine, I can understand that.

      But you know what? I'd be willing to bet that I use about 80-90% of Mozillas features, both on Windows and Linux. I am glad everytime I see a new feature. So you like using Gecko, but not their front end. That's great, but please bear in mind this is purely a matter of personal taste - not everyone agrees, so constantly repeating your own opinion doesn't really add much to the debate.

      Oh yeah, also I get sick of people talking out of their ASSES about how Mozilla is badly manged because OMG the latest nightly has a regression in it. This is caused by a fundamental misunderstanding about how the project works. You think - oh, until 1.0 is finished Mozilla won't be ready, it'll still be in beta. But nobody I've talked to who has used Netscape 6.2 thinks it's beta software.

      They don't think it's perfect either, but the fact is that 1.0 is a number basically plucked out of the air. It's when the APIs will be guaranteed frozen, and other geeky targets like that. When you use Mozilla, you agreed that you were using TEST software, released for the purposes of TESTING. In the course of any large software engineering project, regressions will happen as the internals are rewritten to take advantage of the stuff the developers have learned. That's the same in any project.

      So what I'm saying is, don't whine and bitch about how your favourite feature has been futured, or how the latest nightly has had a regression, or how it doesn't run perfectly on your ultra-obscure variant of UNIX or whatever, and BE GRATEFUL that you can even see the progress of this project! Be grateful that you can contribute, and that you CAN play with the latest features and influence whether they become a part of the project or not.

      Show me the IE or Opera bug db and then I'll shut up. Until then, stop with the FUD.

    3. Re:Slashdotted already? by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Tabbed browsing is far better than anything IE has.

      and, guess what, your pressiouse Mem foot print, well I looked at my memory used before I IERadicated my IE, after ward, I gained a ton of memory with out IE on my system.

      IEs memory foot print is hiden from you, that is why it takes windows so long to load, because IE is in memory at boot.

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      I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
  2. Javagator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Netscape should rewrite Mozilla in Java (like they tried with the Javagator) because then their browser would have no memory leaks.

  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    f1rs7 p0s7!

  4. Dinosaurs & Urine by Clay+Mitchell · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This means that damned Mozilla dinosaur will stop taking a leak all over my computer?

  5. Re:Wow, that's pretty damn useful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who is the bigger retard? The retard who posts the troll, or the retard who continues to post and takes it seriously?

  6. Switched to Mozilla the day before yesterday... by mellon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's really improved a lot. 0.97 was painfully slow on OS X, but 0.99 is actually faster than MSIE. There are still a few UI glitches - for example, command-H doesn't work - but this is the first time I've been able to switch to Mozilla and not have to switch back within an hour. I'm still going strong after three days. Things are definitely looking up for Mozilla.

  7. Re:Real programmers.... by EnderWiggnz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh yeh... that will definitely help when you've got a memory leak the size of ontario from a program that stopped executing an hour ago.

    or, you've got a pointer that went off its bounds and started writing all over its instructions, and the program crahes 1000 lines after the viiolation....

    sometimes, printf, jsut isnt enough.

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