Mozilla gif rendering utilizes 100% cpu?

[Alex White]

Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 19:49, Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:53:49AM -0700, Vibol Hou wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone have this particular page slowing their system down to a 
>>>crawl in Mozilla?  I tried the same page in Opera and it works fine.  
>>>System isn't choppy.
>>>
>>>http://www.khmer.cc/community/t.c?b=12&t=17104
>>>
>>>It's work-safe, just a bunch of animated gifs of science stuff.
>>
>>Mozilla memory usage climbs rapidly to about 300MB RES (600-700MB VIRT)
>>to display this page (after it has finished loading).  This causes
>>swapping (if you aren't blessed with huge amounts of RAM). Swapping
>>causes headaches. I won't say the page is handled very efficiently, with
>>regard to memory usage, but hey, we're talking about Mozilla here. Buy
>>some more RAM and label the chips with "Reserved for Mozilla", then
>>insert onto mainboard. See if problem goes away. 
> 
> 
> Ow! Ran me right out of swap and crashed the system on
> RHEL3-U2/mozilla-1.4.2-3.0.2. Will try later tonight on my FC2 box, but
> it has a gig-o-ram, so I think I will not be crashing at least unless it
> doesn't stop increasing the memory usage.
> 

My machine has a gig of RAM and upon looking at that link, it 
slowed the machine considerably. My particular setup is an 
Athlon 2800+ gig of dual channel ram. Yeah I noticed slowness 
while painting the screen if I tabbed through windows. Very 
weird, that's the first time I've seen my machine behave in 
such a fashion. It also took my cpu usage up to 100% until I 
killed it. Mouse control was normal though.

Alex White