Joshua Linden (Joshua Bell of Linden Lab) points out that a key memory leak fix didn't go ahead with this version as planned. In his own words:
In a really unfortunate "You suck, Lindens!" move, the big leak fix (updating to libcurl-7.16.2) was reverted before the release. I have no excuse. We screwed up. As penance, several of us spent the rest of the day (this was after the long deploy this morning) getting things back into shape. -- [SLDev mailing list]
This particular leak consumes around 250MB per hour on some systems. Linden Lab are hoping to release 1.17.1 as an optional viewer update hopefully early next week, along with a pile of other viewer bugfixes.
In the meantime, you may want to run the Nicholaz edition, which for me, neatly stays under 100MB of RAM the whole time I'm running it. All the caveats about third-party binaries apply here. You have to trust that it does what it says it does and nothing else, of course.
1. In my system it consumes 280MB and sometimes more
I use Windows XP
Posted at 7:22AM on Jun 14th 2007 by FreeLikeBird Martinek