Just had a look at 'top' here, and was astonished by its output:
PID USER PR NI
VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
19199 isabel.s 15 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 7:49.58 firefox-bin
19263 isabel.s 16 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 0:00.00 firefox-bin
19264 isabel.s 16 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 0:02.13 firefox-bin
19328 isabel.s 15 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 0:02.47 firefox-bin
22668 lustosa 15 0 129m 97m 17m S 0.0 13.0 11:50.05 firefox-bin
22672 lustosa 16 0 129m 97m 17m S 0.0 13.0 0:00.03 firefox-bin
(...)
The first bunch of firefox is from someone else using my machine as
well (wonders of LTSP). I was deeply intrigued on what that user is
loading on her firefox, and went to her machine to have a look.
There's nothing special there, though. It's just firefox with 4 tabs open on small and simple pages.
The second bunch of firefox is mine. I have it loaded with like 15
tabs, java applets and so on. I'm also using quite a few extensions.
I can't understand how firefox evolved from small and fast phoenix to
this memory hungry beast that has a virtual space of half a gigabyte.
I mean... even IE doesn't seem to eat all this memory. In fact, I have seen very few processes eating that much memory.
Here is what I have:
[ebuild R ]
www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r3 -debug +gnome +ipv6 +java
-mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozsvg +truetype -xinerama -xprint
Can someone shed some light on this?
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Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil |
- [gentoo-user] firefox is very memory hungry Bruno Lustosa
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