I started to feel that firefox got to be a resourcehog again.... I am using chrome in the meantime on my netbook - no way to get that running smooth there, and I have upgraded my netbook to 2 GB Ram - it's a T91 (no way to put solaris on that, forget it folks - intel drivers not by intel, tungsten sucks)
lg silvan ---- Silvan Gebhardt, pcdog at pcdog.ch +41 32 512 69 58 VOIP CH +41 52 720 39 88 Analog CH +41 78 810 39 88 Cell CH +1 (505) 480-9905 Cell US +1 (360) 718-3416 Landline US + 1 866-941-3869 Toll Free US +31 85 888 0256 NL +44 1225 63 7104 UK Am 09.09.2009 um 09:28 schrieb Daniel Bossert: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > ug-chosug mailing list > ug-chosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug
