Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...

From: Dave Kleikamp
Date: Thu Jan 26 2006 - 09:44:45 EST


On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 00:11 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> What's wrong with Firefox?
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> rlrevell 6423 6.7 16.7 167676 73804 ? Sl Jan25 79:41 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox
>
> 73MB is not bad.
>
> Obviously if you open 20 tabs, it will take a lot more memory, as it's
> going to have to cache all the rendered pages.

I had a recent bad experience that I believe was due to a bug in
adblock. Upgrading to the most recent version of adblock fixed a memory
leak that made firefox unusable after a while.

Shaggy
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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