Re: Why does Opera use so much RAM?

[Matthew Winn <o*@matthewwinn.me.urk>]

On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:53:31 +0200, Vincent Delporte 
<vincent.delporte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  On Sat, 27 May 2006 17:18:51 -0700, Bob <bob@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Firefox is far worse. Yes it clearly has memory leaks. FF would have 
> >used 300-400 MB.
> 
>  OK. Is it too difficult to run Opera with a memory leak checker, at
>  least for something as central as loading a few static pages? I don't
>  have the technical skills to tell, but it shouldn't that hard to spot.
>  Going from 20MB to 100MB in a few hours by simply leaving Opera open?
>  We're talking serious memory leaks here :-)

I doubt there are any substantial memory leaks.  On my Linux system
Opera stays open for months at a time without gobbling up all the
available memory, and this is on a machine with 96MB.  If there were
the sort of leaks you keep hinting at then I'd be restarting Opera
every day.  You must be doing something to use that memory.

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Matthew Winn
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