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Faraox
Can this memory leak be stopped in any other way besides restarting the system? If I look at the flash ads only for a few minutes this doesn't happen. I've also seen this happen with Firefox, so maybe it's a Gecko issue?
When you re-open you cut the process of RAM demand. But you can't cut that when you visit a page with Flash, even stopped, paused, whatever, it will begin again.Quote
Faraox
Just closing and re-opening K-meleon doesn't solve the issue. I tried it many times. Seems like, when this process starts the only way to return to the previous condition is to restart the system.
Again, this happens only if I leave an open tab with flash ads (even a paused Youtube page can do it) for more than half an hour.
I wouldn't mess with the pagefile size. All programs run ok, except this.
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JohnHell
The problem that comes with this practice it's that once it reaches the limit, it won't let you use more memory and it's related to your personal case. You have very LOW RAM for XP (as I said, XP uses over 150MB for itself)***. You should buy a new module. With 128MB or 256 it would be enough if you don't want to buy more
*** you can check how many RAM is using XP using the task manager.
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Faraox
I know 256 MB is very little for today's standards. Actually I intend to buy an I7 machine with at least 6 GB soon, I suppose I won't have this problem then.
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Faraox
I thought this might be an issue that is somehow related to how much K-meleon allows flash to use available resources. I thought there might be some patch for flash or XP, but I guess it's all due to my extra slow machine.
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JohnHell
I know 256 MB is very little for today's standards. Actually I intend to buy an I7 machine with at least 6 GB soon, I suppose I won't have this problem then.
That is not intelligent. I don't mean that a computer needs GB just XP needs a little more than what you have. 6GB it's a waste of money. With 3GB, nowadays, are just enough, even for games. Only if you install WinVista or Win7, and you plan to play, would be interesting, but still 6GB is more than what you need, what every normal user needs.
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Faraox
That's why I like K-meleon, as it's not following this path.
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foobarly
Browsers based on Gecko engines 1.8.x are really slow with recent versions of the flash reader plugin, so no ammount of fiddling with the pagefile on such a restricted system will change a great deal.
You can either downgrade the plugin, loosing compatibility with a lot of sites (for example, YouTube) or try to upgrade the Gecko to generation 1.9.x...
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foobarly
Although it isn't the gospel, my advice originates from my empirical findings -- if you think differently, good for you then. I reported from my own experience and findings of K-Meleon, Firefox and Flock use. The lack of an established cientific explanation doesn't mean that there can't be one...
The problem I have with some of the advice given here is that sometimes one's being told his/her problems aren't real, proceding then to tell such hapless users how things should be... But, hey, you get what you paid for, right?
One excellent example is telling pagefile is independent of system capabilities, when its performance tuning is anything but linear, if you consider the trinome CPU/System Memory/Pagefile (size/location)...
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