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[quote="Eugen Mezei"]
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it always depends of what sites you are browsing and if they use plugins and that's the most important thing in monitoring memory usage

flash and particularly action script flash will consume massive memory, however since its a library (dll) it will not show in your taskmamanger as the culprit for the memory leak but the program from which it's running from, like the browser.

so you think it's actually kmeleon using too much memory or leaking out when in fact it's a dll plugin
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That is true, but I'm browsing the same pages with IE or Mozilla too. The memory usage goes up too, but memory usage is not accumulated, memory is released again.

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i made several tests before with 1.5.x and 1.6.x, with 1 tab, with 3 tabs and with 5 tabs
at one test all sites were not using plugins, very basic html and js code.. kmeleon mem usage remained constant after 30 mins to 1 hour and in some cases it actually went down
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Speaking about usage in a productive environment means up to 8 hours, maybe more continuously use. But anyhow, I often get memory consumption by KM only after 5-10 minutes. Exactly as you stated, depending which sites I do access. Difference, other browsers release the memory after a time, KM does not.

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the second test wwas with flash(actionscript) and java runtime(sun java aplets not js), the memory usage will very slowly but gradually increase over time, after 1 hour it had almost doubled but this wasn't kmeleon's fault since the npswf32.dll was consuming that memory, when the tab or tabs with the flash content were closed the memory started to decline sharply.

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Exactly this is what I can infirm on my computers.

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as gunter and klaus have mentioned, minimising reduces the memory to defaults instantly

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Ofcourse I tried that reccomendation in the hope to solve the problem. Too bad it didn't so. 
I told this countless times, but in the eyes of some I'm just inventing things. Again: It does not work, punctum.

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which confirms there is no memory leak. you can test the difference with real memory leaks with firefox- without any flash or plugins and 1 tab only the memory will escalate and minimising has no affect whatsoever on memory usage.

this is not saying that you might not be suffering from this problem but it isn't a memory leak in km binary, but due to that many sites rely on actionscript flash(not just gaming sites) but this cant' be a proper memory test or proof of a mem leak cause all plugins will consume that memory through the binary which will appear to be at fault when it isn't
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Call it memory leak (I never used this term) or not, fact is that on the same machines KM eats memory and other browsers not.
I never had problems with KM 1.1x, the memory problem appeared only with the 1.2x versions.

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the sys requirements for km at 32mb ram might be unrealistic nowadays since most sites require much more ram for all the js and gimmicks but you can't really blame the browser for that[img][img][/quote]

Still no problems with 1.1x versions in respect to memory consumption, even today not.

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