On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:25:53PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Thu, April 10, 2008 12:45 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I don't see how a single process could use 95% of memory on a 32-bit > > system. > > I can. FF2.x was just painful on my laptop. It only has 256Mb and what > i used to be able to do just a few years ago (Firefox, Thunderbird and > gaim ne pidgin all open until the machine rebooted) I can barely manage > for an hour or two now. FF3 has helped but I'm finding that it and > XFCE4 are the primary hogs of memory. > > After a fresh login I'll have about 40-50Mb used, 0 swap. After a few > hours of FF2.x I'd be maxed on memory and pushing 2/3rds of my 256Mb of > swap. Close FF and most of the memory and swap go away. FF3 doesn't > get that high but it still pushes my machine into swap without much > trouble. What really gets me is after 2-3 days logged in I'll exit > TBird, FF3 and Pidgin and be right back where I was when I logged in. > Just XFCE4 loaded. 70-80Mb used, another 30-50Mb in the swap. I log > out of XFCE4, log back in, 40-50Mb used, 0 swap. :/
Yes, it seems that, at least on Etch, there's a memory leak in the GTK2 widget library common to both FF and XFCE (and others). The leak does not happen with Konqueror. Have you tried Konqueror; you don't need all of KDE. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]