Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:46:21 -0600
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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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