On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Daniel Axtell wrote: > Thanks. This shows that Mozilla is running out of memory. When I tried it > with a new .mozilla folder, it loads fine.
In this case you can just copy the bookmarks.html file from the old to the new. You'll also need to reset your homepage. > > What I've noticed from top is that memory usage keeps climbing. I have 512 > megs; how can I find out which process is causing this? Top shows the total > usage climbing, while individual processes seem to be unchanging. > > Any ideas? Memory usage is not necessarily a bad thing. Linux will use all available memory to buffer disk access. If an application requires the memory, Linux will free it from buffers to make it accessible to the application (i.e., you have 512M so Linux makes use of all of it). In 'top' you can press 'm' to sort by memory usage. This will show the total memory that the processes are using. This includes shared resources so the totalling the RSS column will give a number much higher than your actual, installed memory. The buff and cached numbers reflect how much memory Linux is using to buffer disk access. If you launch an application you may see this number decrease or increase, depending on the state of your memory. Swap usage is also not a bad thing. For example, say you have OpenOffice loaded but have not used the application in several hours. The system will swap the OpenOffice program to disk to make use of the physical RAM for buffers/cache or application memory. This is better than keeping a chunk of memory used for nothing.
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