Hi Javi Ok, I'm calmed down. I have 2GB physical RAM and was annoyed that these 2 programs used 25% of it.
Thank you very much for your explanation! Cheers Daniel Am Di, 8.09.2009, 23:13, schrieb Javier Conde: > > 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 >> >> >> -- >> PGP-Key-ID: 0x7C7A722B >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-chosug mailing list >> ug-chosug at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug > -- PGP-Key-ID: 0x7C7A722B
