Hi, On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:57:02 -0200 Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > 19328 isabel.s 15 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 0:02.47 firefox-bin > [x4] > 22668 lustosa 15 0 129m 97m 17m S 0.0 13.0 11:50.05 firefox-bin > [x2] > > [...] > 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. Hm, on the hand: yes, it _is_ memory hungry. On the other hand: You've already said: virtual address space. And as I interpret the above numbers, a lot of things is most probably shared among those processes. You can find out e.g. by comparing their /proc/<PID>/maps. > I mean... even IE doesn't seem to eat all this memory. In fact, I have seen > very few processes eating that much memory. You mean that tiny frontend to the OS' functionality? It certainly doesn't need much memory, no. But remember, other Browsers have to implement a lot of this stuff themselves and not rely on the functionality that specific OS and its API offers. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
