Re: [tlug] Firefox beta 3 (was: NEWBIE: My Way and NOT Their Way?)

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 02:26, Godwin Stewart wrote:
>I have a gigabyte of RAM in this crate. I'm not worried about FF using
> 10% of that even if it does seem an inordinate amount at first sight.

I *wish* Firefox only used 10% of 1 GB...

Here's my work machine, which has 1 GB RAM. Firefox has been running for 
about 25 hours:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
24205 dramaley  15   0  315m 132m  30m R    0 13.1   8:54.40 firefox-bin

And my home machine where it has been running for a bit longer:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4244 dramaley  20   0  750m 310m  27m R   11  4.3   1348:01 firefox-bin

I'm not sure which number is the actual memory usage, but 750 MB seems 
like quite a large number. Of course, that machine has loads of memory, 
but still, i'll probably restart firefox very soon since i've noticed 
it gets kind of sluggish when it gets that bloated. And once it starts 
getting sluggish, if i don't restart it manually it will force the 
issue by dying of its own volition. I should probably restart it for 
other reasons anyway; that machine isn't being actively used at the 
moment (i logged in remotely to get the memory stats), so Firefox 
should be consuming 0% CPU. Probably one of the extensions ran away 
again. Or maybe it was javascript that went wild. I don't know; i just 
hope 3.0 fixes some of the memory and stability problems.

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