On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 13:22 -0500, Gregory Gulik wrote:
> This laptop is basically used for web browsing with only Thunderbird
> and Firefox running on it 99% of the time.
> 
> I did install and run xrestop which of course shows firefox consuming
> most of the memory:
> 
> xrestop - Display: localhost:0
>           Monitoring 31 clients. XErrors: 6
>           Pixmaps:  332424K total, Other:      98K total, All:
> 332523K total
> 
> res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID
> Identifier
> 3200000   187   60    1 2632   49   308625K      7K 308633K   ?
> Gregory Gulik
> 3600000   182   60    1  669   93    19562K      8K  19571K   ?
> Inbox for greg

firefox 1.5 is supposed to be more of a memory hog than 1.0.x.  Are you
running the latest firefox update from Fedora (1.5.0.2-1.2.fc5)?  There
were several Red Hat engineers diagnosing places that firefox was
chewing up memory and had fixed at least some of them.

-Toshio

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