Re: SeaMonkey 2.35b7

Doug Bissett wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 18:17:15 UTC, Steve Wendt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 8/7/2016 6:38 PM, Doug Bissett wrote:
>>
>>>> I have 256 MBs of low shared memory available.
>>>
>>> I start out with less than that, after booting (last boot it was 241
>>> MB). When I load FF, I am left with about 115 MB.
>>>
>>> Well, you are a special case.
>>
>> Selective snipping to make a point - clearly you are doing something
>> unusual at startup.  You've said it's not ClamAV, but it must be
>> something that you are running.
>
> Some investigation reveals that CLAMD.EXE is using about 6 MB of low
> shared memory. I assume that is from the "common" DLLs that it uses.
> Running the AOO QuickStart thing uses an additional  3 MB. XCenter
> seems to use about 20 MB. All of that accounts for the 29 MB that gets
> used between the time Above512Watch gets started, until the sytstem is
> ready to use. At that point it says I have about 241 MB available. If
> I start FF (with, or without, RUN!), it drops to about 130 MB.
>
> I will need to dig into CONFIG.SYS to see what it starts up.
>

I can't remember if you have DLLBASING=OFF at the head of your 
config.sys. I do and it gave me quite a bit more (low) shared memory.
Still, there are other problems. Today I fired up SM 2.5 (Gecko 8) to 
fix places not keeping history, this never was marked to load high and 
Free Shared Mem showed a 100MB drop right away, things ran smooth with 
about 150 MBs free, upon closing I saw the free memory briefly drop to 
100 MBs before rebounding to about 250 MBs. I also took the opportunity 
to mark some of the requirements to load high, Fontconfig, Pango, 
Freetype, Cairo and Pixman for now.
Going back to SM 2.35 things ran fine, history was back to working and 
starting SM only used a couple of MBs of low shared memory. Later after 
having shutdown TB and SM, I fired up TB first and then clicked the SM 
icon (run!L), bang reboot, didn't even get far enough to break 
profiles.ini. This was with about 250MBs free lower shared memory.
It's irritating.
Dave