C=E9sar Catri=E1n C. wrote:

> According to this thread,
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3D501535#501535 ,
> linux and *BSD's work different freeing memory pages. In
> windows, in example, freeing unused memory from firefox can be
> done by minimizing the window, but that is not the procedure in
> *unix.

Though *BSD and Linux seem to work the same way, here, I have to
add that the BSDs have their own libc and do not use the glibc.

> That explains firefox using 53M of memory and 32M of
> swap, with only one web opened after loading and closing
> several tabs. Is this memory management behaviour 'tuneable' in
> NetBSD?

Maybe one can 'tune' that behaviour, but as far as I understand
it you would not gain any memory/performance improvements. If
another app needs memory, some of those pages that firefox
doesn't need anymore would be allocated -- I think that 'lazy
releasing' is to save time in case firefox needs more memory
again...

Better ask such questions on -current. They seem know such stuff
over there ;)

Cheers, Rob.
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