Hi Daniel,

The amount of memory used by an application is independent of the OS  
or compilation options. When the application needs some memory, it  
will use a malloc to ask for the amount needed.

Firefox was probably using some plugins. Also, when observing the  
memory used by an application, take into account that shared libraries  
are only loaded once, and shared between applications. You may see  
this amount of memory more than once in the default memory calculation  
done by the os.

Regards,

Javi

El Sep 8, 2009, a las 21:32, Daniel Bossert <db at dabo.ch> escribi?:

> Hi all
>
> I can see that the firefox needs 500MB (!) RAM. Yes, there is a
> facebook-applikation running (a game) und some sites..
>
> But is it possible that it needs so much memory?
> Thunderbird needs 185MB RAM.
>
> Does I have to calculate in 100MB-steps when I have opensolaris- 
> programs
> running?
>
> Or would it be less if i could compile these programs by myself?
>
> Thanks and cheers
> Daniel
>
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